ok but not convincing

I had the impression that the director tried to copy to many movies and clichés he liked, the mix didn't work very well. Additionally the narrative style and the cuts leave the audience clueless often enough. Characters and actors are ok, but overdrawn and too emphasized. Minor details are never explained (why is Lisa already depressed before she learns that the brothers will leave?). The shots are often a bit to long, some nice scenerey is shown, but we have seen even that much better before. The protagonists act stupid, yes, their situation is pretty desperate, but no one in his right mind would walk out into such snow in the mountains just like that. Also, drinking all the time (older brother) seems pretty idiotic.

The surprising weird encounters (like man-eating trappers, really?) and gruesome fight scenes just don't want to fit in. It's all a bit too much in your face, I really expected the movie to turn into a wild-west zombie flick at one moment. It has potential to tell a gritty and desperate story of two brothers trying to save their family by going after their insane killer dad, but it somehow doesn't make it.

The soundtrack was positively minimalistic during great parts of the movie. Actually some scenes worked only because no music was being played at all. The score was not perfect, though, often enough it didn't support the scenes or was to cheesy.

Keeping up and improving on the good feeling for long, silent scenery shots, less dialogue and more imagery, a reduced score, the director might come up with a really good movie in the future. Better actors or better directing them could have helped (casting was good, though). The writing should be much tighter, though, and try to tell a story, not connect scenery episodes.

I'd give it 4-5 stars for the ambitions. With a potential to get up tp 7-8 easily, without the mentioned aspects. A little less experimenting and the next movie will be alright.