Following Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog has constructed another picture out of found footage. However, he’s in danger of becoming an ingenious archivist rather than an insightful artist, as this assemblage of clips from a space shuttle mission and Henry Kaiser’s expedition beneath the Arctic ice shelf lacks either the substance to provoke or the focus to compel.
Linking it all is Brad Dourif in a Kinski-lite display as an alien who rants against the folly of sending a probe to his abandoned planet after Earth is threatened by microbes attached to the Roswell craft. But for all the sly wit, this abstract feature is most memorable for its haunting soundtrack.