Tedious amateur hiking movie

Rating: Null/10 (4 April 2003)

Irritating, pretentious, mannered, contrived, histrionic, self-indulgent, self-conscious tedium.
Hey - wave the Hi-8 around a lot to show it's handheld. Shout and swear a lot to make everyone think you're REALLY wound-up and scared (but keep on shooting whatever happens - hey they're going to kill me. what a really INTERESTING shot.)
An amateur attempt at conveying an amateur attempt at making a film, with everything in underlined capital italics. With plot and dialogue and characterization that don't work, so that the whole basis of fear - identification with the characters and suspension of disbelief in the plot - never begins to work either.
It might have been a bit better on radio.
All that said, the marketing was pure genius, and deserved a special Oscar.