Alright movie

Rating: 6/10 (1 June 2005)

The movie had a pretty good story, but overall I didn't think it was a great movie. Overall I just think it went on too long. I don't really understand why they did the "three years earlier" thing, it wasn't really necessary I didn't think.
The end of the film was surprisingly anticlimactic and dragged on further then it had to. I was under the impression that the whole movie was about these two people in love with each other and trying to find each other again. So he finally finds her and...well the next scene is Ada and Ruby are having some off topic conversation. Maybe its just me, but I was a little disappointed when, after three years of searching, they didn't simply find each other, put something good in, and end the movie. They finally made love about 10 minutes (film time) after meeting for the first time in three years, but by then it was already ruined.
Then I thought that parts of the story were pretty phony. I know it's a movie and its not supposed to be 100% realistic, but after he stumbles upon the third random woman in the middle of nowhere who happens to openly offer him food and shelter (which was limited to them as well), it got kind of fake. Then, Ruby's father is shot and laying in the snow overnight but Ruby and Ada somehow revive him in a little wooden shack on the mountain? My whole party believed he was dead after getting shot, kind of fake there as well.
The last little quirk for me was that some of the dialog seemed really bad. Like lines from a Schwartzeneger movie or something. Like when the old hag kills the donkey (I hate her for that), the little monologue she says before that, come on. Nobody would do that. For a movie that was supposed to be so serious, the one liners in the battle scenes were pretty dull as well.
Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad movie, but it just wasn't a great movie. I thought it had a good story from about 15 minutes in to about 15 minutes before it ended. The acting was pretty good, I don't know what the deal was with the Boy Meets World guy, but even he wasn't bad.
Overall, this is definitely a movie for the women. I can see how a woman would like this more then a man. You can't be picky when you watch it, and you have to be really ready to watch it, because it moves at a SNAILS PACE. I would say that it is worth a watch, but isn't one that will live through time. I would take Legends of the Fall over it any day though.
5.5/10