Scando invasion. With "Get Lucky", the Scandinavian film company Field Productions is (again) bringing a mixed freestyle and freeride ski film to the European market this year. Unfortunately, both the film technology and the action on offer cannot keep up with the powerful competition from overseas. Camera work, tricks, lines and the athletes' skiing technique all remain at a rather national level.
Of course, the conditions in Norway for freeriding are rarely so good that you can really step on the gas here. With hard snow or crushed snow, there is of course no great action. The rather averagely filmed urban rails and kicker tricks don't exactly blow viewers away either. What's more, the athletes still look a little awkward - as if they only started skiing two years ago. And showing 30 shots of a single kicker one after the other doesn't exactly give the viewer the feeling that the producers really put a lot of effort into the editing.
Conclusion
Even the rather sparse lines from Alaska and the Alps with well-known names such as Seb Garhammer or Jon Larsson don't change the overall impression: a Scandinavian home video with some nice shots, but doesn't reach the level of other low-budget productions or even the level of the powerful competition from overseas.
Film length: 42min
Bonus: approx. 2h of miscellaneous material.
Price: 26.90 euros