I’m a huge Henrik fan, so its always difficult to write impartially about his work.
Everything Henrik touches seems to turn to gold and that’s not just competition runs.
It’s well established that he is one of the hardest working skiers in the game.
The film centers itself around a variety of trips and the riders that accompanied Henrik on them.
The list of skiers that throw down in this half-hour affair is phenomenal.
Workwear steeze coming to a hill near you!
The quality and versatility of the riders creates an epic backdrop to Harlaut’s own work.
I say backdrop because Henrik did not hold back for this one.
Hes been going so hard and showing no signs of slowing down in fact, quite the opposite.
He really is playing a different game to everyone else at this point.
I mean it when I say, ‘ANYTHING’
The overall vibe of the film is… Epic.
Theres a lot of intense music and long build ups.
Many tricks are shown in slow-mo with multiple angles.
None of these are bad things per say.
It didnt bother me too much, I quite enjoyed the intense feeling throughout.
However, for some, it might be a little too much.
That being said, I really liked the overall feel of the movie, it got me hyped.
Like, really hyped.
There are no wasted shots.
Stept were clearly very selective, applying the age-old adage quality over quantity to the cutting room.
I kept catching myself noticing some small detail in the filming that really stood out.
I like noticing little bits of genius behind the lens and theres a good few of these in there.
I think all the segments were very well put together and stylistically well balanced.
The Chamonix segment had an excellent vibe to it, the music choice was spot on.
It had that magical balance of getting me super hyped to shred but feeling nostalgic too.
Whereas the competition flashbacks were all hype and steeze with a little animation thrown in.
Henrik is shown to be forever humble through his GOAT status, something that we all love about him.
There were a couple of shots from Andorra that seemed a little haphazardly thrown in.
I think everyone, including Henrik, would have liked this mini-section to have been longer.
I think they were shot sometime this year, Noah Albaladejo is masked up.
But those are the only little ‘negatives’ you could throw in there.
The best transition of the lot has to be before the Jackson Hole section.
Everyone throws down hard and the spot selection from the streets to the backcountry is super creative.
I don’t have many bad things to say about this film.
This film was set to be huge and it truly is.
I said I would struggle to be impartial and I did.
I loved this one.
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The film released on all good VOD platforms on Tuesday 10th November.
