Gladiator with snow.

Rating: 3/10 (6 February 2016)

Visiting the Pacific Northwest has kinda been on my bucket list, and this film just saved me using miles on my American Airlines' AAdvantange card, but that's the good news... Sadly, this film borrows too much from the equations of Saving Private Ryan, extraordinary opening battle scene, but really, Gladiator with snow, where the wife and son flashbacks were way too similar and predictable. I barely heard the dialogue, whether it was poor recording of the audio during the shoot or the theater's sound system. (I resorted to reading the characters' lips.) Inasmuch as I wanted to believe the story, a bear attack of such magnitude, open wounds, loss of blood, albeit modern day medical care, and recovering with such ability, killed its credibility. Les Stroud and Bear Grylls would cringe regarding hypothermia's effects while swimming in subzero waters, wearing soaked garments, without succumbing, nearly had me walk out of the theater. Overall, the film should win an Oscar for cinematography, as well as a camera operator who handled a Steadicam quite well. If anything, the film makes me long for The Wolf of Wall Street II.