Such a frustrating disappointment

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

You should also cut those present-day humanity scenes shots, they're fitting nowhere in the main narrative. They're poorly, different resolution takes which aren't fitting within the rest of the movie's narration. Somehow, I'd compare this with the 1992 Ron Fricke & Mark Magidson's "Baraka", but for that I give 10 of 10. The commentary (pardon, Cate Blanchett, not her fault) is above my understanding in terms of how it fits with the visuals. Either it was scripted based on artistic or religious concepts (you can think of the Scriptures, Buddhism or even Thelema - if you want), you must accept is out-of sync with what you're seeing. It makes no sense. So, hearing Malick dedicated ~ 40 years to this project, I'd say he should've done better with it.

Based on how it was promoted I walk into this expecting a short documentary providing a quick tour of the history of the universe, while this is obviously a large topic there are meaningful things that can be said about it in 45 minutes. (e.g. the sort of content that you'd see in the first lecture of an intro pale course, with very brief coverage of big bang, first gen starts and stellar formation at the beginning).What the movie actually turned out to be was a lot of mysticism wrapped up in a scientific veneer. It repeated asked questions and then invited people to wonder at the open-question rather than attempting to answer the question (or even get the audience to answer the question it was clear that it really wanted to be about spirituality but also wanted to look like a legitimate documentary). This was even the case with questions that many first or second year students would have little trouble answering.It also routinely miss placed images in the chronology it was covering (e.g. talking about pre-Permian cephalopods but showing pictures of cuddlefish, showing iron enriched sedimentary deposits before talking about oxygenation etc...) Still gave it two starts at the photography and CGI was good even if it was sub-par in most other ways.

This documentary jumped around so much, present (homeless people), past, present, past again, I got lost trying to figure out what was going on, the narration had nothing to do with the documentary, Mother, where are you, Mother, speak to me, it would have done better with no narration. People are going to say, Mother, is Mother Earth but the film started in the present and Cate Blanchard is asking where are you with the cameraman sticking the camera in homeless people's faces, that is when I thought this film has nothing to do with Voyage of Time.

I rarely ever write reviews about movies, but this 40 minute IMAX movie was devoid of content. "My child...What's death?" "My child... What's perfection?" with Christian choir music in the backgroun is all that you'll get from the narration. The visuals don't make sense - slow shots of of swirling red and black clouds. This IMAX was dark, creepy and pointless. Even my 6 year old said "I learned nothing" about history or science in this movie.