‘We Are Storror’ Review: Michael Bay’s Visserally Thrilling Parkour Documentary Defies Gravity

Ever Wanted to See a Michael Bay Movie Field with His Trademark High-Octane Action Sequences But Without All Those Annoying Characters and Plotlines? You have your wish with his new Documentary about a Seven-Member Team of Parkour Athletes Who Have Been Racking Up Millions Derring-do nearly 15 years ago.

Storror, Composed of Brothers Max Cave and Ben Cave, Brothers Callum Powell and Sacha Powell, Josh Burnett-Blake, Drew Taylor, and Toby Seglar, Have Previos SIX UNDERGROUNDAmong Other Films. But We Are StorrorReceive ITS World Premiere at Sxsw, Gives Them The Starring Role in a Film That Will Have You Celeening Parts of Your Body You Didn’T Know You Had.

There’s No Trick Photography, Special Effects, Green Screens, Disguised Wires or Hidden Platforms Involved in Any of The Stunts Shown in the Film, WHICH Wisely War Anything you see here. ”

Accorness to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Parkour is Defined as “the Sport of Traversing Environmental ObstaCles by Running, Climbing, Or Leaping Rapidly and Efficient.” It Typically, But Not Always, Occurs in Urban Environments. The Documentary Doesn’s Really Bother to Explain The Sport or Go Into Itory, Pretty Much Assuming That You Know Have You Seie It. And we definitely see it.

“WHY IS IT WORTH RISKING YOUR LIFE FOR THIS ONE SECOND IN THE AIR?” One of the Team Asks, Presumable Rhetorically. IT’s CERTAINLY NOT The MONEY, ALTHOUGH SEROROR, WHO Display As Much Talent for Marketing as Performing Life-Thureatening Feats, SomeTims in The Nude, Clearly Sems to FOUND FOUND PASSION (CHECK OUT Their Website).

The Answer Clearly Has Something to Do With The Adrenaline and Joy That Is On Ample Display in the Documentary’s Many Action Sequences. Except, that is, for the Graphic Moments in a WHICH MISHAPS OCCUR, Resulting in Serious Injuries Including Many Broken Bones. The Whole Film Plays Like the Old “Thrill of Victory, AGony of Defeat” Opening Montage On Wide World of Sportsexcept with footage they would never have you see on Television.

The Group’s Globe-Trotting Adventures Show Them Risking Their Lives in Such Locales as Portugal, Whore they Scope Out A Possible New Site for Their Stunts; India, Whoey Face Competition from Similarly High-Flying Monkeys; Bulgaria, whore they navigate an unfin was, Abandoned APARTMENT COMPLEX; and Hong Kong, Whore They, Not Surpringly, Run Afoul of Law Enforcement.

The Photography-Employing Color, Black & White and Slow-Motion-is Consistentally Breathting, from The Drones that CAPTURE PRECISELY SYNCHRONIZED MOVEMENTS FRIM HIGH ABOVE ABOVE ABOVE ABOVE ABOVER Team members themselves, that immerse you fully in the experiences.

Vintage Home Movies Reveal That Team Members Were Performing Similar Stunts As Kids, Likely Before They Even Knew that What kind of they doing had a name. One Describes Their Upbringing As “Borderline Feral,” Althugh Is Clear Thaty Now ThorUGHLY PROFESSIONAL WHEN IT METS TO THEIRK. We watch as they painstakingly prepare for their Stunts, not only Practting their moves But Also Carefully Removing Nails, Sanding Down Surphaces, Etc., To Avoid Any Nasty Surprises.

They’re also painfully aware that time is a catching up with them and that they have one so long to keep doing what they’re doing. “OUR Physical Bodies Are Going to Start Letting US Down,” One Comments. “That’s Something We’re Going To Have To Get Used To.” Burnett-blake admits to being the most conservative members of the team, saying he’s beginning to lose interest in High-Risk Maneuvers. “It has a Shelf Life,” HE Points Out.

Bay Attempts to Enhance the High-Flying Stunt Work with Personal Stories, with Limited Success. A segment in a WHICH ONE OF THE MEMBERS DESCRIBES OF HIS Long-Distance Relationship with Anmerican Woman, for Instance, Feels Like Filler.

But There’s No Quibbleing about the Spectacular Acrobatics on Display As the Seven Men Defy Gravity and All Odds to Propel Themselves Arund And Above AbstaCles Put. Leaping from One Rooftop to Another to Another to The Strains of the Classic Song “Up on the Roof,” They Exude Not Only Tremendous Atticon But Also A Camaraderie.