Polar Bear Interference
I am betting this has been re-hashed more than once, but I lost all respect for the producers during credits.
The film is presented as a non-interfering look at earth's nature. They then show the polar bear approaching the crew who are hiding out in some kind of hut. Who knows what kind of energy that poor animal used in trying to get at the film crew. It could have been hours, or days. It was obviously already at some stage of starvation. At the point it reached the walruses, it had nothing left in the tank. If the crew indeed left the animal for dead, citing 'circle of life,' when they had clearly invaded its territory to the point it saw and approached them, I have zero respect for that. The bear had hunting instincts intact, is endangered, and the crew would rather film it starving to death than to grab some fish or some nearby food resource? It was sickening how they almost seemed to want to grab 'the shot' rather than being of assistance and being of help to the planet they are so keen to film.
I respect leaving the animals to their elements, but the film should have been called 'observing and filming the deaths of 5-6 animals.' put some hope in there, show some greater good, do the human thing and show some compassion. This film lacked all those things. From a cinematography point of view, 10 out of 10. For the rest of it, bottom of the scale.