Entertaining

Rating: 6/10 (27 July 2016)

The movie is about beliefs and how far someone is willing to go to honour those beliefs.
Real-life link-since this is an action movie I will not judge if all the actions are possible or not because it is understandable that most of them will be exaggerated for entertainment purposes. Where I found the link to be true is that it is quite common to do some of the most extraordinary actions in order to accomplish what you believe is important. Finding your path. That was highlighted. It was implied that if you find your path you find your purpose and when you find your purpose its then when you are happy. And I do believe that accomplishments lead to happiness. We can just imply that Bodhi died happy but we were never shown it. Also a good life lesson try by stressing that we are only possible for our own path, actions and choices. But is that true? Is that true when you also are the encouragement of someones actions like Utah was for his friend? Encouraging someone to follow you is also an action that had tragic consequences. Should you not be responsible for that?
Character analysis: Utah was a very poor developed character. A confusing character. I never quite understood what were his motives for joining the FBI. Why did he want to become a part of the FBI so bad? Body on the other hand was way better developed. He had more depth and a clear aim, path, vision that was ready to do anything to accomplish what he believed was his purpose.
The movie had a good plot however the development of the movie was weak in many points. For example, they failed (with the exception of the climbing scene) to show us that the tasks were as extreme as they say they are. For example, if competing the task when they fly was so difficult, how come all of them (including Utah that was some kind of a amateur) completed it? It did not come across how difficult the tasks were. They looked easy. Also, the fact that Utah finds the group so easily and immediately without challenges, shows a weakness of this movie.
In general however, the movie is quite entertaining. It starts interesting, keeps you interested when Utah blows his cover and just when you think that that was the highpoint of the movie there comes the scene with the climbing. When you think that that was it and that Bodhi died there you have the final scene where he dies after completing is path.
What I thought was gonna happen is that after Bodhi died, Utah went to accomplish the water task in Bodhi's and others honour but I was wrong and the ending so was quite a surprise for me.