One of the biggest technical failure of our times
Forget the story awhile, let me just focus on the technical side of this film: wow, this is amazingly bad.
The crew had no idea how to use the Red One camera, did they. No one bothered to read the manuals.
Color tones all over the place, worse than most webcams. Resolution less than most cameras found in mobile phones, what 4K magic? To top it all, the movie seems to have been graded and edited on uncalibrated monitors, nothing else can explain the mess you see on screen.
And to think they -somehow!- achieved this with Red One, one of the best digital cameras in the business. In fact, until the recently released Red Epic, Red One was the premiere digital camera. But you wouldn't believe this movie was shot with Red One when you see the "quality" of the product.
I bow my head to the incompetent crew. This movie's footage should be archieved alongside all the great movies shot with Red One, so that people can truly marvel at the scale of this crew's incompetence.
Most of the times when people say they could shoot a better movie than what they have just seen, they are wrong. A lot goes into producing a film and amateurs cannot hack it.
However, this is one of those rare movies where anyone who reads the manuals (available for free at Red.com) can shoot much better than Werner and his troupe of half-witted crew.
As I watched this movie, I found its title a very apt reaction to the technical failures I saw unfolding in front of my own eyes. Werner Herzog what have you done?!