Bad flick about a bad life

Rating: 1/10 (19 January 2008)

I don't understand why people liked this film so much. The scenery was beautiful but the rest of the movie stinks. The music was so loud that every time it came on you had to put your fingers in your ears to keep from being blown away. The people that the young man met were adorable but he was insufferable. Sean Penn tried to justify his behavior by describing a bad childhood but that is no excuse for his stupid behavior. If he really needed love, it was offered to him time and again but he thrust it away. To go into the wilderness of Alaska with no wilderness training or equipment was unforgivable as he found out. No one with any backpacking experience would have ventured out on such a trip as badly prepared. Death awaits anyone who steps out on such a foolhardy adventure. His many tirades describing why he did what he did made no sense either.