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Not a good film, sorry


The movie is not well put together, and doesn't add up to much.
The images are nothing special, lots of snow but nothing very pretty or interesting to look at. It's a cliche to want "beautiful but cruel nature", but this movie doesn't try that, nor is even ugly nature. It's just boring snow, and it doesn't even make a point of its boringness.
The story is sub par: there have been a hundred better survival stories. "All is lost" for instance, nailed the lone man adventure. This is similar despair, with none of the depth.
Mads is totally wasted, he almost seems old rather than tough/resilient, and doesn't do much else than look beat scene after scene.
The details of the action are quite poor, we never understand how he manages to eat, sleep, etc once he gets away from the plane.
Overall doesn't give the viewer anything, other than a final relief when they find rescue (or better, when the movie is over).
Could have been good, I was expecting a manly 1.5 hour, I was disappointed.

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Not good, unfortunately. I was expecting some serious drama and it turned out to be just melodramatic.

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What's the difference?

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Lack of realism, simplified dialogue, lack of psychological depth, style over substance, epic music, happy ending etc. - these are the usual features of melodrama. For example: Solyaris (1971) is SF/Drama and Solaris (2002) is SF/Melodrama, Spoorloos (1988) is Thriller/Crime/Drama and The Vanishing (1993) is Thriller/Crime/Melodrama etc. Unfortunately, melodrama exists as a term but not as a genre tag (at least on IMDB) so for me it's something like 'personal vocabulary'.

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Ok thank you for the explaination.

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Agreed. The movie is overrated.

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Hey manages to eat by cooking his frozen fish he caught on a gas stove that he found on the helicopter. He sleeps in a cave, a snow cave he made, and once in the sleeping bag with the girl to stay out of the elements, i think you can join sleeping bags but im not sure.

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I agree ... I was totally boring and unsatisfying, and way too long.

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There was no point to the movie ... at the end I was sorry I wasted the time watching it.

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An hour and a half we coulda been watching Transformers instead! I want restitution!

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