RACING EXTINCTION

Considering that this film comes from the team that did the incredibly powerful, outrageous, investigatory documentary THE COVE, expectations going in to this were exceedingly high. Always a risky move. RACING EXTINCTION is documentary that starts off fine, living up somewhat to COVE standards, but sadly loses its way with Tesla toys and custom, big projectors aiming political images and pictures of extinct animals onto tall buildings as a form of high-tech guerrilla protest where you can squeal away in a fast electric car if any law enforcement comes a-running, sirens blaring. The segments on endangered or going-extinct species around the world are alarming, depressing, and all the usual -ings. Planet Earth has got to be getting pretty pissed off with the way selfish, stupid, greedy humans are screwing everything up. Earth ain't gonna stand for it forever. But focusing in on a diminuitive lady race car driver with a penchant for Teslas and who I suppose dreams that NASCAR one day goes electric is not in my opinion the solution. Wondering why we have NASCAR in the first place might've been a better approach. If only *it* were going extinct... SCORE: 50.