14 Minutes from Earth

The movie begins with a description of the stratosphere and how little we know about it, in addition to how critical it is - then we get into the story of trying to raise a human to the stratosphere so he can fall through it. If the idea is to collect data on the stratosphere, I believe developing a drone that could remain in position for more than a few minutes would be much more productive. This movie with the pictures of his kids, the interview with his wife and co-workers at Google, all seemed staged to be nothing more than stroking this guy's ego. I just don't see how falling through the stratosphere (which has been done approximately 60 years ago), is going to give you enough data worth the time and expense. The movie was just a PR stunt, why else would you film it? It's like bad reality television.

So the narrator was really annoying and at times it dragged but it also blows your mind at times and the final jump footage was insane and definitely worth watching even if you skip the rest. Overall a reasonable watch.

Yeah the narration can be annoying but if you're a skydiving or space nerd, you'll enjoy this one. Focused on the logistics of making his suit and air transport, it's not so deep that everyone can't be interested. Great scenery as well.

I don't think anyone would really believe a documentary would be released of a failure, or of the main character dying, so the cliffhanger moments are really overdone. And as has been noted by other reviewers: the science we're promised at the beginning is entirely missing. What really grated on my sense of reality was calling him their "pilot" - he had no more control than Abraham Lincoln would, if they had dropped a penny from that height, so he wasn't piloting anything. But if you can get past all that, it's actually an interesting story about a lot of money being spent to seriously risk a man's life just to break someone else's useless record. No mention at all is made of the ONE guy who originally did this for actual science - Colonel Joe Kittinger.

I couldn't get through the first 15 minutes because the narrator was so atrocious. I think the Google Assistant sounds better narrating this movie than the guy narrating the movie. That and it was poorly written my high school teenager could have written a better script no waste your time