Very boring, he is NOT a hero at all,he died for nothing, period.

Rating: 4/10 (25 August 2010)

Well, I usually agree with the ratings on this site, but I am surprised about this high rating for this movie. It is definitely overrated. I rated it a 6.
It is very boring, too long. And the scenes jump back and forth, so it was a little confusing. When I watch a boring movie like this, I read a book, magazine, newspaper while it plays on the background. And that is what I did when I watched this DVD. It was so boring that I had to watch it in three nights.
The only reason that they made this movie is because he is a white guy from a middle class family. It is just that simple.
There are plenty of street bums like him living on the streets, in the wild. They don't bath, they don't eat proper food, they are dirty all over. I am sure that you can find some veterans who fought in some glorious wars, who ended up living on the streets just like him. How come they don't make a movie about those people? Did this guy do anything great? nothing. Did he save anyone's life? No. So what is so great about this guy? nothing.
He could have used those free time to volunteer to save the world, instead he chose to live his life without any purpose. In a way, you can say that this guy is weird, he thinks differently than normal people. He thought that he was invisible, so he didn't have a cell phone, just in case there is an emergency.
Yes, it is sad that he died, but he is just an ordinary man. People die all the time.
Suppose that someone made another movie about a non-white homeless man who traveled all the way to Alaska to live in the wild, what rating will that movie get? Surely, not many white people will like to watch that even though the story will be exactly the same.