Nice view - shame about the acting

Rating: 7/10 (12 February 2016)

Good movie. The (Canadian?) backdrop was both authentic and spectacular.
Lennie the Goat hammed it up as usual - I can never seem to take him seriously - but fair play to him for freezing for his art. Tom Hardy was mumbingly miscast as the bad guy trapper and went way down in my estimation. No one else took the eye - probably because they were all trying to keep warm.
But this is to miss the point - this movie was about the story and the wilderness setting, not the acting. Much has been said about the violence and gore. There were horse-guts loads of both and a lot of effort was put into making us all look away from the screen at certain moments. Most of the horrifying bits made me laugh out loud because they were over - contrived. The famed bear scene, although reasonably well done, was a hoot.
All in all, worth going to see unless you're squeamish about not-real blood and guts.