A fun documentary on the wildcats of Scotland and the efforts being undertaken to protect their habitat and species. The show was wonderfully narrated and provided good info and stunning visuals. Occasionally would go off on tangents and repeat info.
10 Reviews
Critical, vital, mesmerizing..
david-56913 November 2018
Peaceful. Human. Beautiful. As have said about our future on this rock, so they go, so we go. As in the path of extinction. The information imparted by the vested parties in this is a superb blend of the cat... its past, present and hopeful future. And why we should care.
We should care because as they go, so do we. The people in the film care. It becomes infectious how much they care. And it presents like a beautiful soft jazz piece. Where the silence between the notes are as important as the notes.
Yes, wistful descriptions. But that is what comes across. Oh, the visuals are stunning.
Well done. Was completely mesmerized by this. Sad to see others who did not resonate with it. Personally was completely drawn into this. The cats.. I want success for this.
We should care because as they go, so do we. The people in the film care. It becomes infectious how much they care. And it presents like a beautiful soft jazz piece. Where the silence between the notes are as important as the notes.
Yes, wistful descriptions. But that is what comes across. Oh, the visuals are stunning.
Well done. Was completely mesmerized by this. Sad to see others who did not resonate with it. Personally was completely drawn into this. The cats.. I want success for this.
Thoroughly disapointed.
kieran-r-geary9 November 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I had no clue that there were wildcats still roaming around in Scotland, but now I do, the only problem is that I dont really know anything else about them.
Tigers of Scotland had so much potential, but it overall just amounts to the narrator saying "Scottish Wildcats exist and they are very endangered" over and over for 50 minutes. There are hints at some interesting content, for example I wish they'd gone more into depth with the Wildcats in British/Scottish folklore, their history as a species, I was at least hoping they would have got some actual footage of a wildcat in the wild, but nope.
The narrator sometimes talks about the film crew getting the footage for the film, but not enough for it to make sense in the overall structure of the film, if it was a documentary about the filming of the Scottish wildcat then I would be okay with that, but the vast majority of it isn't so why is it in the film?
The visual contents of the film is mostly just slow motion shots of captive wildcats yawning mixed in with a few conservationists and a scientist. I am actually convinced that the excessive use of slow motion is to pad out the runtime.
The actual information that the film is communicating is also very limited, there are 3 or 4 seperate occasions in the film where they say the estimated number of remaining Wildcats in the wild and (this is hilarious to me) EACH TIME THEY SAY IT IT'S A DIFFERENT NUMBER. I think first they say "under 400", then they say "around 100" and then finally "97". I know that these are all technically correct, but why didn't they just say the actual statistic once and let that be that? The rest of the information on the Scottish wildcat is just trying to justify its classification. The rest of the documentary (and by the rest I mean easily 40%) is just about wildlife conservation techniques in general, citing examples of the Lynx in Spain/Barcelona.
I think I know what went wrong in the production of this film; they just didn't have anything to say. Which sums the film up completely, I would not recommend this documentary to anyone, you'd actually be far better off looking on a google search results page.
I think I know what went wrong in the production of this film; they just didn't have anything to say. Which sums the film up completely, I would not recommend this documentary to anyone, you'd actually be far better off looking on a google search results page.
Interesting, and informative.
repairsrus-7740312 November 2018
Warning: Spoilers
The Scottish Wildcat, a cat apart from the domestic common north african household cat, that's seen today. The Scottish wild cat is a descendant of the European Wild Cats. There's lots more interesting facts, and cat topics covered, and I found the programme enjoyable and informative.
Prepare to be underwhelmed
yawl-019301 December 2018
I live in the states and therefore I knew zero about this animal until I watched this...docu-whatever-you-want-to-call-it...and now I know approximately .0001 % more than that. This amateur attempt at a documentary is a haphazard, poorly realized & edited mess that lacked a readily identifiable, unifying theme. This film should be shown to prospective film students so they can learn what not to do. I especially disliked: 1 being told that the animal was incredibly elusive one moment...and that it was living right on people's doorsteps the next, 2 the tight shot of a wildlife enthusiast
who apparently had a shot of one (or many? I never figured it out) in the wild- scrolling through blank and icon filled pages in the menu of her automatic wildlife camera when I wanted more than anything at that point to see one of the photos she was talking about, 3 finding out who one of the main interview subjects was fully three quarters of the way through the production. It was so bad that I was compelled to write this review about a film that no amount of reviews from the friends and family of the filmmaker can possibly hope to save from the oblivion of time. I hated watching it because it was painful to do so and I was stunned at how bad it was....that is until I found out it was financed to some extent via indigogo and then EVERYTHING suddenly fell into place.
Fascinating
pictishbeastie11 November 2018
Great documentary about the Scottish Wildcat and the need to protect it and it's environment. In spite of what other reviews say they aren't feral domestic cats as is made clear by the experts featured in the programme. Unfortunately there are a lot of people within and outwith Scotland who, largely for political reasons, hate the idea of Scotland being unique in any way. Its called the Scottish Cringe and says more about the person making the statement than about Scotland. It really is quite pathetic.
It's not a house cat
justin-ernest-clement2 November 2018
Great Documentary about Scotland's feral cat problem.
rockchalkmatt9 November 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Stunning film about the rarest cat in the world
baileys-coffee17 October 2021
Gorgeous scenery and breathtaking closeups of the rarest cat in the whole world, the Scottish Wildcat.
This film was made by Wild Films Ltd, it looks like they're an indie film natural history production company but this could have easily been a Discovery Channel show for sure. Beautiful film with amazing narration by Iain Glen.
The Tigers of Scotland film contains wonderful interviews with the conservation community and really important messages about the endangered species that is the Scottish Wildcat, as well as the work being done by the pro-wildcat community in Scotland to take care of them and help boost there numbers even though there are so very few left.
I caught this film on Amazon Prime, it was on Netlifx for some time as well, and I don't understand the negative reviews here as they don't seem to appreciate the artfulness or even the people who are giving their time to talk in the film, like not every documentary about animals has to have them mating or killing each other for it to be interesting... It's OK to learn from your wildlife documentary films once in a while!
This film was made by Wild Films Ltd, it looks like they're an indie film natural history production company but this could have easily been a Discovery Channel show for sure. Beautiful film with amazing narration by Iain Glen.
The Tigers of Scotland film contains wonderful interviews with the conservation community and really important messages about the endangered species that is the Scottish Wildcat, as well as the work being done by the pro-wildcat community in Scotland to take care of them and help boost there numbers even though there are so very few left.
I caught this film on Amazon Prime, it was on Netlifx for some time as well, and I don't understand the negative reviews here as they don't seem to appreciate the artfulness or even the people who are giving their time to talk in the film, like not every documentary about animals has to have them mating or killing each other for it to be interesting... It's OK to learn from your wildlife documentary films once in a while!
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