i dunno why people are bashing this movie. i've seen much poorer films than this.
who cares if there's not really wolves in the real life grand canyon, it's a friggin' movie!
that being said, i actually enjoyed it. pretty cool concept, getting lost in the grand canyon. beautiful scenery, good acting.
i'd say check it out for yourself. it's not really a horror movie, more of a survival in nature movie.
I agree with darkko-1. The exasperating part of this film was the stupidity of the characters.
1. Better they should have retraced backwards their route after their guide became injured.
2. If it progressed to the unwise decision to climb the rockface then get to the top of the cliff before you try to make an SOS phone call.
I liked this movie too.
shareIt was just okay but not at all what I expected, and that is due to a misleading cover blurb.
I was in the mood for a mystery or a horror flick when I picked it up. The back of the video case had this to say:
"Honeymooners Nick and Lori head off to the Grand Canyon for adventure and time alone together. Upon arriving, they hire Henry as their guide, who seems to have his own idea about the outdoor excursion. When tragedy strikes, the newlyweds must fend for themselves. Discovering they are prey being hunted by something or someone, they desperately fight for survival to escape the canyon alive."
This lead me to expect that Henry had an ulterior motive and that they were being stalked by something more exciting than wolves ... possibly supernatural, possibly humans. After 20 minutes, the reality set in that Henry was just Henry and the only stalkers were wolves, and there were no bad guys or evil spirits or anything else of the sort, so I settled in to watching the inevitable unfold.
If Magnolia hadn't written a misleading cover blurb, I wouldn't have rented it.
hah! that is really misleading.
i went in knowing it was about a couple getting lost and being stalked by wolves.
i thought Henry was going to do something evil to the couple. turns out, he was a really nice guy. haha.
Eh, I was into it, but after they had been in the desert for, like, a full day without food or water I became annoyed.
Over the summer I went on a 6 mile hike in the LA area with two friends and we ended up going through our water faster than we expected because it was so hot. We actually had to cut the hike about a mile short, and let me tell you, the last mile and half was effing BRUTAL without water. We weren't even lost and we kept bickering and having to stop every 100 yards or so. I even started crying, but I was so dehydrated that I was just basically dry sobbing and my other friend collapsed like twice. Obviously, we made it out alive. But, we went an hour and a half without water and it was effing BRUTAL.
I've hiked before too, so I'm not some pansy girl that just bite off more than she could chew. I know I at least had as much endurance as Lori, and let me tell you, a city girl like that would have snapped an hour after the tour guide died.
This couple was WAY too relaxed for being LOST in a DESERT with no food or water. I guess that food isn't so strange, since when you're dehydrated, you don't want to eat. But ya, they kept teasing and flirting with each other and it totally distracted me from the movie. And I couldn't stop cringing when Lori kept losing the signal while they were climbing the face of the cliff. She was like, "oh darnit, lost the signal. I shall try again" WTF? I would be screaming at that piece of *beep* and damning my service provider straight to hell and follow through with a flurry of every swear word known to man.