Good Movie, Great Visuals.

Rating: 7/10 (13 January 2016)

This is a beautifully set movie. The basic plot unfortunately was fairly formulaic.
As a Canadian in the throws of winter I don't particularly enjoy watching a movie set in the cold of winter as well. I have enough of that when I step outside! My biggest problem with this movie is simple reality. You do not go fording across a stream in winter on foot or on a house without consequences. Mountain streams can be freezing cold in spring(I have panned for gold in the mountains), so you can imagine how cold they are during the winter. To most this would seem a trivial thing, but I would hate for any kids to think this was OK.
I also really don't go in for this over the top superhuman effort stuff. This character never seems to get ten miles without taking some horrible physical damage.
Unlike most of this genre of film, this movie is totally without humour which makes the unrelenting suffering particularly hard to watch. It reminds me of "up" which I couldn't watch to the end. The bottom line I guess is I did not "enjoy" watching this movie.
That all said, this is a well acted and directed and worth a watch.