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11 October 2002 (Canada) morePlot:
Adrenaline Rush: the Science of Risk takes a look at the world of skydiving and base jumping - parachuting from a building... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Great documentary, cinematography, music... awesome! more (9 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| Charles Bryan | ... | Himself | |
| Jon Devore | ... | Himself | |
| George Morris | ... | Narrator (voice) (as George Marris) | |
| Adrian Nicholas | ... | Himself | |
| Katarina Olikainen | ... | Herself | |
| Mike Vail | ... | Himself |
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The best IMAX movie I've ever seen. There's this mile-high sheer cliff with 4 guys in parachutes ready to jump off... you're in a helicopter directly overhead looking straight down on them as they jump... the visuals are dizzying at this and other points.
The story revolves around a group of people called "base jumpers", which means jumping off something attached to the ground. Cliffs, buildings, bridges over deep gorges... anything goes. They also jump out of airplanes, and do some amazing aerobatics.
The "science" part of the story involves describing in simple language how an adrenaline high is a natural high that some people desperately crave for biochemical reasons. They team up with some scientists trying to see if Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old design of a parachute will work. They actually built it, hang a person off it, and lift both up to 10,000 feet using a hot-air balloon. Then they drop it and... you get to see what happens. Did Leonardo successfully design the world's first parachute, centuries before the first aircraft flight? You be the judge.
The music, visuals, cinematography, and story are all excellent. If you see just one IMAX movie in your life, see this one. Forget "Dinosaurs in 3D" and others, which are mostly crap. See this one.