An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was starring Josh Harnett and Mira Sorvino, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though this story definitely had some potential and even though I always had a weak spot for such minimalist survival thrillers, this one wasn’t really good, I’m afraid. I mean, Harnett was not bad and actually even rather convincing but everything else was seriously weak though. Indeed, all the scenes involving Sorvino and Sarah Dumont were rather cringe-inducing to behold and made the whole thing looked like your average Lifetime channel production. To make things worse, Sorvino seemed to be completely miscast for the role. Seriously, at first, I thought she was LeMarque’s girlfriend and it was a rather weird choice to have an actress who was around 10 years older than Harnett to play his mother, especially since she didn’t look older than she actually was. There were also a bunch of flashback scenes but there were all terribly half-baked. It seemed pretty obvious that they tried to emulate ‘127 Hours’ by making these flashbacks slightly surreal but it is easier said than done. Indeed, Scott Vaughn is definitely no match for Danny Boyle and these scenes felt terribly redundant, hardly artistic and, above all, they failed to give the audience a good understanding of what happened to the main character before he got stuck on this mountain. Indeed, what kind of career did he have as a hockey player? At what point did he decide to walk away and why exactly? Coming back to Josh Harnett, after ‘Pearl Harbor’, he decided to walk away from super stardom to focus on smaller movies which seemed like a wise decision. However, it turned out that he would eventually spend much of his time showing up in such underwhelming obscure features after all. Anyway, to conclude, I have seen worse but I still don’t think that the damned thing was really worth a look. 

5/10