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Good effort, terrible delivery.


This is another one of those movies that seemed to have started out as a great idea/plot but was put together so horribly. The shame of it all is that it is a Canadian movie. I hate seeing movies this bad come from Canada. For starters the location was simply not good for the movie. Sure, BC is the most gorgeous of the provinces.. but it seemed like the director was trying to incorporate surroundings into the film TOO much. The music was God-awful I don't even want to get into it. The acting.... without Carly Pope who is GORGEOUS, the cast simply didn't show up to play. Again, it was a nice try, but in the end the whole film seemed feeble at best.

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i wouldn't say it was terrible, but it definitely wasn't great.

i get what they were going for with this movie, but it really did not come across and just fell short. i mean, the scenes with the soldiers in the forest?? i was almost laughing when the grandfather first rescued that guy and dragged him off into the forest. it was like it was supposed to feel so dramatic, and it just came across as laughable.

the music- i agree that it was awful. it did not fit, and again, lent a sense of ridiculousness when the movie was supposed to be serious.

overall, this could have been a great movie- look at the cast!! brendan fletcher, carly pope, thea gill, etc. here was the best of canadian actors. but it just didn't work, unfortunately.

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