Rating: 5 out of 10, I finally snuck a movie (Netflix rental) in around Olympics watching and now I’m wondering why. Neeson is one of my favorite actors and he holds his own in this as does the rest of the cast but the story is just ludicrously stupid. The plot revolves around a group of oil roughnecks who survive a plan crash and are hunted by a pack of wolves. The cold arctic weather is like another character in the movie but again not realistic. It’s just too hard to believe that this pack of wolves would act so completely different than normal in hunting men who they avoid whenever possible in real life. There was a real sense of Darwinism at work here though because this had to be the stupidest bunch of supposedly tough men. If they were being stalked by killer wolves would they abandon safety just to take a wiz? Maybe it just might be a good idea to take along something to fight back with – like a metal club from all the plane debris lying around. I guess the writer and director were going for some deeper meaning here about the evil oil men invading a pristine wilderness that fights back but they sold it as an action movie and it wasn’t. The characters, outside of Neeson, were so uniformly unlikable and you almost root for the wolves, like they’re doing us a favor. I think this was a case where
MVP: Neeson as Ottoway, the suicidal leader and least unlikable survivor
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