How this film gets such a high score on this site amazes me - its currently bang-on 7.
From the beginning i found Neeson's character to be unlikeable. So i certainly wasn't rooting for him! However it appears that he was supposed to be the 'hero' ... Way off the mark in my opinion.
The plane crash and immediate aftermath was BEYOND a joke. Are we really supposed to believe that an accident of that sort in appalling weather conditions leaves only people that are dead - or totally unharmed? (minor aches and abrasions notwithstanding!)
And then survive in the quasi-arctic wilderness for days without the obvious essentials? Shock and hypothermia would have killed them long before the wolves did!!
The behaviour of the wolves was also unrealistic. And in several scenes it bordered on the supernatural! I wasn't sure if the Alpha wolf was actually supernatural in origin at first - it seemed super-intelligent. Since when do wolves on the hunt decide not to kill certain prey items because the Alpha wants to settle a score? Silly.
Storyline, dialogue, characterisation were all terrible. I realise that during many films you have to suspend your disbelief and I'm happy to do so if that helps the film move along - but this entire scenario was just plain SILLY and took itself FAR too seriously.
After reading so many positive reviews i was expecting something MUCH better. Perhaps there should be a reviewers age included in the review because its obvious that many reviewers here haven't seen a decent adventure movie before ...
Im 45 for the record.
From the beginning i found Neeson's character to be unlikeable. So i certainly wasn't rooting for him! However it appears that he was supposed to be the 'hero' ... Way off the mark in my opinion.
The plane crash and immediate aftermath was BEYOND a joke. Are we really supposed to believe that an accident of that sort in appalling weather conditions leaves only people that are dead - or totally unharmed? (minor aches and abrasions notwithstanding!)
And then survive in the quasi-arctic wilderness for days without the obvious essentials? Shock and hypothermia would have killed them long before the wolves did!!
The behaviour of the wolves was also unrealistic. And in several scenes it bordered on the supernatural! I wasn't sure if the Alpha wolf was actually supernatural in origin at first - it seemed super-intelligent. Since when do wolves on the hunt decide not to kill certain prey items because the Alpha wants to settle a score? Silly.
Storyline, dialogue, characterisation were all terrible. I realise that during many films you have to suspend your disbelief and I'm happy to do so if that helps the film move along - but this entire scenario was just plain SILLY and took itself FAR too seriously.
After reading so many positive reviews i was expecting something MUCH better. Perhaps there should be a reviewers age included in the review because its obvious that many reviewers here haven't seen a decent adventure movie before ...
Im 45 for the record.