POSITIVES…
Could you live a life and raise a family in the remote wilderness as fur trappers? It’s a solid set up for the setting and characters…
…then the story goes places. There’s a creepy ominous suspenseful dread with the narrative, which keeps it a bit more interesting.
MVP goes to Camille Sullivan as Anne. You immediately understand where her mind is throughout this film, and that’s all thanks to her performance.
One of the best parts of this movie are the scenes with Gabriel Daniels. In fact, the whole rangers subplot in general was enjoyable to watch.
Good supporting cast, from Devon Sawa, Summer H. Howell, Lauren Cochrane, and Nick Stahl.
I’ll give Writer-Director Shawn Linden this. He knows how to just grab your attention with that ending. I know that’s all everybody seems to want to talk about.
It may not be the point of this movie, but it thoroughly convinced me to not want to ever live in the woods. So I’ll put that in the win column. Oh, there’s a commentary against city folks too, so take that for what you will.
NEGATIVES…
Deliberately has a slow burn of a pace, and doesn’t really get going until at least 20 minutes into it. Heck, some will argue that it doesn’t really get going until at least an hour into it.
It’s being talked about like a horror film, but it’s definitely not that in the typical sense.
One of the characters makes a very questionable decision which just seems so stupid, and kills some of that suspension of disbelief for the rest of the story.
I would say that there are several questionable plot decisions that made me shake my head in disapproval.
There’s a mean streak to this movie that I didn’t particularly care for.
I know Animal lovers will hate this film.
Speaking of hate. The plot progression left me more frustrated and angry than I’d prefer to be.
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