Terrible, slow, lame. And also not good.

Rating: 1/10 (24 January 2008)

I have to say that actors tend to write long emotional journeys...and Sean Penn wrote a long emotional journey. Unfortunately, the movie is terribly slow. Nothing happens. There are lots of montages, lots of shots of moose running around, things like that. The story just drags along. The story itself isn't too compelling. Folks tend to enjoy stories about heroes or about empowerment, not about idiots who go untrained "into the wild" of Alaska only to eat a poison plant and starve to death. 2 and a half hours is a long long time for nothing to happen. On the plus side, the performances are excellent, especially Hal Holbrook. That man is just a marvelous actor. Vince Vaughn plays the same character he plays in every movie, so no ground breaking performance there.