Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Deeper than the descriptions

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I watched this documentary yesterday at night. Honestly, the title is everything i want to say. Why in the hell, Americans and Australians who don't have culture in themselves think they have right to tell what the Japanese should and should not eat??Seriously people....America and Australia are the 2 top meat lover nations, we know it, you know it, it is the fact. You telling Japanese "well, dolphin are affectionate, they are intelligent too. They are beautiful, so killing dolphin is sin" I mean who the heck will listen you?? Hellooooo? You love burgers, sausages, bacon, ham, BBQ on Sunday?? Turkey on Thanksgiving and Christmas? You have to have meat on every day and God knows exactly how many animals are killed yearly for those two countries....and yet you tell Japan "Hey, you guys are in bloody business! Stop it now!!"You are just arrogant....If you are saying "dolphin are intelligent, beautiful creatures, so they shouldn't be killed. Cows, pigs, chickens, and other domestic animals are not as intelligent as dolphin. So it is actually okay to farm them, medicate them with anti-biotics and growth hormones and other chemical.." wow you shock me badly. That's exactly what Nazis believed in. People, time to wake up and realize your arrogance attitude towards other culture. I give 2 stars, just because I kind of feel Ric actually loves dolphin even tho his behaviour in Japan is unacceptable. Sea Shepard? Oh hell no, they are bunch of losers, uneducated people with racist views. You all need to watch "Behind 'The Cove'" by director Keiko Yagi. Japanese spoke up finally against western arrogance. Wonderful work, Director Yagi!!

in a few words said ,to see this documentary exposes the killing of 23.000 dolphins a year sustained by the Japanese government in a village called Taiji using the sea cove there .Often selling the dolphin meat as named whale meat .Only few singled out and capt alive to sell to companies like sea world (exposed in the movie documentary" Blackfish 2013")The Japanese government secretly calls this slaughter pest control .In this documentary exposes also the reason why the Japanese government is actively involved in the killing of whales and dolphins . Simply put,dolphins and whales eat fish and killing this intelligent sea creatures leaves more fish for the Japanese economy ,domestic and export ,its economics by savagesFormer dolphin trainer Richard O'Barry(TV series Flipper 1968)experiences the intelligence and personality of this sea creatures early on and ever since fought for their humane treatment around the world For this documentary he teamed up with filmmaker 'Louie Psihoyos basically got people around to group up and thats how this movie came about hard to watch sometimes but good to know

This wasn't overly entertaining although I think it is good that it was made, because it exposes the killing of dolphins in a cruel way. The cruel way that the dolphins are killed is to me more concerning than the fact that they are actually killed. That said, as the documentary correctly shows, dolphins are very intelligent which in my view makes it morally problematic to eat them at all. The fact that they are cute is morally irrelevant.Other than not being overly entertaining, the problem I have with this movie is that I think they were spinning a fair bit of bull****, like when that guy said that dolphins are voluntary breathers and can choose to commit suicide via choosing not to breathe. I looked this up on the net and there are researchers saying this is proved to be factually incorrect. Knowing that the film makers were prepared to portray bull**** like this which runs against science, you wonder how objective the whole thing is in some aspects, such as how the movie portrayed the Japanese people.

This film follows a team attempting to capture footage of the mass slaughter of dolphins that takes place in secrecy in small fishing village in Japan.Ric O'Barry was the dolphin trainer for the TV series Flipper. He turned to activism in grief when one of the show's dolphins committed suicide, fighting for cetaceans to be released from captivity worldwide. In this documentary, O'Barry puts together a team who put themselves at great risk to get this story out. For that, they deserve deep respect.We see the lengths the people of the town of Taiji go to in trying to cover up their actions. We see how the cover up extends up into the government of Japan itself. Most of the film details the crew's efforts to bypass this concerted attempt to suppress the truth.The climax is horrific. This story will stay in my head for a long time. Like all of the best documentaries, it taught me something new, it produced a profound emotional impact, and it leaves me wanting to know more. This is a deeply saddening tale that deserves to be seen widely.