snowleopard
Well-known member
I'm late to the party but wanted to comment. I saw this a few weeks ago and needed to digest it.
First, as one who has spent a fair amount of time in the wild - like, a lot of time, and some of it very wild - the film was unrealistic, as GB notes. Almost painfully unrealistic. It failed on a survival level in many ways, but mostly in that wolves don't attack people. With this, The Canyon (0 stars), Frozen, it's like we learned nothing from Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf).
But on a gut level, the movie impacted me at the time, and now that I've reflected on it, I really connected with the man vs. himself, man vs. man, and man vs. God aspect of it. I thought that was superbly handled. And I agree than Neeson was outstanding. He carried the film like few other actors could have done. I liked it more than GB did looking back on it, and if you can get past the lack of realism with nature, it's a good film with some excellent aspects to it.
First, as one who has spent a fair amount of time in the wild - like, a lot of time, and some of it very wild - the film was unrealistic, as GB notes. Almost painfully unrealistic. It failed on a survival level in many ways, but mostly in that wolves don't attack people. With this, The Canyon (0 stars), Frozen, it's like we learned nothing from Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf).
But on a gut level, the movie impacted me at the time, and now that I've reflected on it, I really connected with the man vs. himself, man vs. man, and man vs. God aspect of it. I thought that was superbly handled. And I agree than Neeson was outstanding. He carried the film like few other actors could have done. I liked it more than GB did looking back on it, and if you can get past the lack of realism with nature, it's a good film with some excellent aspects to it.
