Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk (2002)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Marc Fafard

Writer:

Marc Fafard (writer)

Release Date:

11 October 2002 (Canada)

Genre:

Documentary | Short

Plot:

Adrenaline Rush: the Science of Risk takes a look at the world of skydiving and base jumping - parachuting from a building...

Plot Keywords:

Base Jumping | First Person View | Extreme Sports | Parachute | IMAX

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Cast

Charles Bryan	...	Himself
Jon Devore	...	Himself
George Morris	...	Narrator (voice) (as George Marris)
Adrian Nicholas	...	Himself
Katarina Olikainen	...	Herself
Mike Vail	...	Himself

Directed by
Marc Fafard

Writing credits
Marc Fafard		(writer)

Produced by
Carl Samson	....	producer

Cinematography by
Peter Anderson
Peter Degerfeldt
Göran Widenby

Film Editing by
René Caron

Production Management
Rick Gordon	....	post-production supervisor
Peter Hollander	....	post-production supervisor

Sound Department
Pierre Rousseau	....	sound designer

Stunts
Bertrand Cloutier	....	base jumper
Martin Dumas	....	base jumper
Paul Fortun	....	base jumper
Mikael Nordqvist	....	base jumper
Mario Richards	....	base jumper

Camera and Electrical Department
Maxime Imbeau	....	best boy grip
Lorenzo Negri	....	second assistant camera
Marcus von Holtzendorff	....	assistant camera

Production Companies

• Blue Sky AB
• Sky High Entertainment

Distributors

• Giant Screen Films (North America) (South America) (Asia)
• La Géode
• Staffan Forsell (Europe)

Runtime:

40 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

South Korea:All | Australia:G

Filming Locations:

Eikesdal, Nesset, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Company:

Blue Sky AB

Great documentary, cinematography, music... awesome!

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.