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The movie reveals some of the most stunning landscape cinematography imaginable, while everyone on the isolated ship waxes philosophical — as who would not? ...It is slow, talky, but full of insight, and not as depressing as one might fear. "There's a lot of hope in a brutal landscape like this," says a scientist toward the end.

The Expedition To The End Of The World courses with the zeal of Robert Flaherty, the fearlessness of Werner Herzog, and the fatalistic humor of Lars Von Trier. While individual moments echo with a familiarly mordant sense of alpha-male adventure, together they cohere into something wild and new.

The film is essentially an evolved hybrid of global environmental documentary and the group-trip experiments of reality television. Its biggest step onto unfamiliar terrain might be its ambivalent ending, conveying uncertainty about what can or should be done next.

Expedition to the End of the World is a visual pleasure, refreshingly free of message or structure, but it leaves an aftertaste similar to that of an awkward party spent among intellectuals: You leave uncertain whether everyone in the room was smarter than you, or just better at pretending they're smarter than you are. The film becomes either hilarious or self-parodic when one researcher says he'll "go down to the saloon and write down the meaning of life," and then proceeds to do just that.

None of the sailing vessel's passengers have a set mission in mind, and neither does director Daniel Dencik, resulting in a casually breathtaking but also frustratingly tedious journey. Which, to my mind, was precisely the point. Freed of a familiar narrative arc or any sense of what we might encounter along the way... the film exemplifies the kind of exploration that modern man... hardly ever gets to experience. In both subject matter and form, this is undiscovered territory.

Natural wonder and human comedy are meted out in equal proportion—the calving of glacial ice, and the creep of cabin fever—and sometimes mingled, as in the shots of one scientist taking to the arctic-blue skies in a Zodiac boat pimped out with glider wings.