Softens the Sting

Rating: 7/10 (9 August 2013)

Oops. When you make the supposedly impenetrable landscape like snow infested mountains with mega-sub-zero temps, and the uncompromising, waterless and scorching desert look so attractive, it softens the sting.
This great looking Movie sometimes feels like a safe National Geographic Travelog that you enjoy from your couch as a painless experience. Yes, these Characters do get some skin irritations, and some do die from the trek, it is played out with as little investment as possible from the Audience.
It is sprawling, to say the least, and the escapees do bond enough to make it as a team, but there is, unrealistically, not enough conflict and Drama. It is all handled in such a delicate way, that it is too Artsy for its own good. It is without much tension and it all plays out so gentile that the Movie is OK to watch but there is way too little to feel.