THE END OF THE LINE (Rupert Murray). 87 minutes. Opens Friday (July 17) at the Royal. See Indie & Rep Film listings. Rating: NNN
You won’t want to eat sushi after watching Rupert Murray’s stomach-churning doc about the greedy corporations rapidly depleting the oceans of fish.[rssbreak]
If the findings in the film, based on UK journalist Charles Clover’s whistle-blowing book, are correct, the seas will be empty of our finned friends by 2050.
The many talking heads aren’t the liveliest subjects, though one fisheries department wag sarcastically cautions that we may one day be left eating plankton and jellyfish. Yum!
The tension comes via Clover’s attempts to find out how upscale restaurants serve endangered fish species on their menus. The ocean footage is suitably stunning and the statistics depressing, but the distracting, overproduced score belongs more to a horror film than a thoughtful doc.
