An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Albert Hughes’s work, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, to be honest, I did end up with some mixed feelings. I mean, the damned thing was hardly original and, on top of that, it took a while to finally get started. Still, even if Kodi Smit-McPhee’s character seemed to be rather wimpy at first, eventually, the character still worked and its sensitive side might have actually saved him. Indeed, he couldn’t kill this defenceless wolf like that, he actually needed him to survive and to make it through this hazardous journey. Furthermore, thanks to the modern CGI technology, they managed to provide a realistic wolf and I did appreciate the fact that they didn’t try to ‘humanize’ the behaviour of such a wild beast. Eventually, to me, the most interesting thing was probably the fact that Albert Hughes started his career with directing ‘Menace II Society’, one of the best movies in the Hood genre, and to see him coming up with something so completely different 25 years later was actually pretty neat. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still a decent watch and I think it is worth a look, at least, if you really like the genre.