So much average

Excellent adaptation.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Blistering performances.

Cmon. The skiing is amazing. This movie is not and it's way OVERPRODUCED.

Stunning imagery and great visuals. The story behind the movie is based on Renan Ozturk's life, and I, as a person who follows him and other people involved in this production, can truly relate to it. I really can not understand the claims of other reviewers for a luck of narrative and boring or missing storytelling. Very well worth your time!

This film opens a new era of visual storytelling, almost literally welcoming the viewer 'Into The Mind' of the athletes. I went to see this movie, which I had been long awaiting, at the UK premier in London and although the screening facilities were very poor I left the screening with a few unanswered questions. The filmmakers play with several themes, motives and story lines throughout the film, the most obvious one being the sherpa himself in a meditating and ritual state, emphasized by the use of slow motion and the second, Renan Ozturk's attempted of a crazy ski descend which ends up in Hospital. These two motives are interrupted by sequences such as the heavy CGI sequence in the half pipe, which to my taste was over the top. The first person POV used in the movie that follows Renan Ozturk, is not your usual GoPro first person amateur perspective, but a strategically used one through which the viewers enter the Mind of Renan, to be present as he takes the decision of baling out on the descend, deciding to return to reattempt the descent or picking up Jimmy's phone call in the first chapter, to which he actually hesitates. The use of this technique and others such as this, seem at first to be an over the top cinematographically tool but on an interpretational level the film depends on them to tell its visual story. The critics of this film are going to continue to be discrepant, but if your looking for a full on skiing film this will disappoint you. Apart from that the Cinematography is absolutely wonderful, the soundtrack picked is appropriate and the editing is brilliantly thought out and executed.

This is (with a few exceptions) a visual masterpiece, and the storytelling is extremely beautiful and clever. Just don't expect a ski movie.First, why is it so good? The cinematography and editing is some of the best i have ever seen. There is a lot of eye-candy, and if you don't pay attention the film might strike you as a long music video, and you miss the actual story. Every frame is very thoroughly chosen to represent thoughts, memories and feelings in the mind of the main character. The best word to describe Into The Mind is innovative, and there is no movie quite similar to it except maybe All I Can.The film has received quite a few negative comments from frustrated and disappointed hardcore fans of ski movies. I completely understand why some are disappointed, the film is simply not primarily a ski movie. Into The Mind is, as I see it, first of all an exploration of some of the most fundamental aspects of being a human being, and it only uses extreme skiing as a symbol in its metaphorical (and strictly visual) way of telling the story. Sounds pretentious? Absolutely, if you want skiing and think that all other scenes are just there to look good (and believe me, this is planet earth-quality photography). A very CGI-intense scene with snowboarder Benji Farrow, and a segment of Callum Pettit growing a fake beard have received most criticism, both of which are very symbolic and, of course, look exactly the way the filmmakers wanted them to look. I don't believe the connection some people make between not liking the movie, and not getting the movie. Into the mind simply isn't everyones cup of tea.My guess is that this movie will continue to stir up feelings, and it will probably be widely appreciated beyond the skiing-society. Hopefully, for the prodigious Sherpas Cinema, this is a step towards even more thought-provoking films, which does not necessarily involve skiing.9/10