My review was written in June 1990 after watching the film on Raedon video cassette.
Solid thesping by Campbell Scott uplifts this survival drama, retitled ungrammatically for home video after lensing two years ago as "No Way Back".
Young stockbroker Scott and his buddy Bernie White are out on a hunting trip discussing commitment and life when they become enmeshed in a squabble among clans of hill people.
The picture alternates between "Deliverance" action and a pastoral romance culminating in tragedy. Filmmakers Michael Borden and Morgan Sloane attempt awkward framing devices that render the picture cryptic: the whole affair is narrated by a dead character and Scott has a mystical, out-of-body experience in which he finds his own corpse Straightforward storytelling would have sufficed.
Scott, currently starring in "Longtime Companion", adds depth to the shallow central character, and Virginia Lantry acquits herself nicely as the plain mountain girl who falls in love with him. Pic benefits from an eclectic musical score.-
Solid thesping by Campbell Scott uplifts this survival drama, retitled ungrammatically for home video after lensing two years ago as "No Way Back".
Young stockbroker Scott and his buddy Bernie White are out on a hunting trip discussing commitment and life when they become enmeshed in a squabble among clans of hill people.
The picture alternates between "Deliverance" action and a pastoral romance culminating in tragedy. Filmmakers Michael Borden and Morgan Sloane attempt awkward framing devices that render the picture cryptic: the whole affair is narrated by a dead character and Scott has a mystical, out-of-body experience in which he finds his own corpse Straightforward storytelling would have sufficed.
Scott, currently starring in "Longtime Companion", adds depth to the shallow central character, and Virginia Lantry acquits herself nicely as the plain mountain girl who falls in love with him. Pic benefits from an eclectic musical score.-