....money talks, just like in the film. If you can seriously eat fish without trying to moderate your consumption after watching this documentary, then you have no heart.

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning

Filmmaker Ali Tabrizi became concerned about the plight of ocean life, when he discovered how much plastic waste was ending up in it (and the animals that inhabit it) and went on a crusade to pressure businesses in to being more responsible with how they use it. But then he discovered that the real danger was to marine life, including sharks, dolphins, whales and even fish that ends up on our dinner plate, when he learned the damage commercial fishing methods were causing, and exactly how vital to mankind's survival the underwater world is.

It's pretty hard to move these days without hearing about 'climate change', and the dangers we're all facing if we don't all act. It must get pretty jarring if it's not something you're overly passionate about, and it all follows a pretty similar narrative, but here filmmaker Ali Tabrizi casts a light on an ecological crisis that evidence suggests is causing a bigger problem than anything you hear about in the media. It's all presented in a direct, unrestrained way, with narration from Tabrizi that gives it the feeling of being a feature length Panorama episode.

Tabrizi makes some pretty audacious claims in his film, regarding the reliability of 'ocean safe' labels and the baffling silence from major environmental organisations to highlight the findings he makes, that they don't seem to have been in any rush to mitigate, a la McDonald's's swift response to Morgan Spurlock's claims in 2004's Super Size Me. If his findings aren't shocking enough, then the raw, unflinching footage he presents of actual, bloody whale slaughter, in the Japanese seas and an especially unpleasant display of the annual Faroe Islands whale slaughter, certainly is and will definitely have your stomach turning

With environmental matters being a hot social topic at the moment (at least, in the media) Ali Tabrizi here shines a light on a matter not getting as much attention in the mainstream media, that could potentially be more catastrophic then anything that's been claimed. I mean, fish and chips is one of our national dishes, and...it doesn't bear thinking about.****

A good, well-made documentary from Netflix. I was thoroughly engrossed by SEASPIRACY, particularly the format which draws you in gradually on familiar territory and then ends up wowing you with insider footage and facts and situations you'd never considered before or knew nothing about previously. The narrator/documentarian is a likeable character and his international quest takes him into perilous situations that shed new light on mankind's abuse of the oceans, a crime for which we are all complicit. Great stuff.