Starts Great, Ends not so Great.

Rating: 6/10 (29 December 2010)

I feel Like this Could and Should have been a great film but unfortunately its not. The first 45mins (in the prison and the escape) had me captivated and I felt I was about to watch a masterpiece but it gradually becomes very repetitive and pretty flat. Towards the end I really didn't care anymore and was praying for it to be wrapped up.
Visually in terms of the cinematography its beautiful and the performances are pretty solid by all, but for the final 2/3rds not a lot really happens. There is a lot of walking over various terrains, Pseudo Philosophical campfire chit chat and the finding of a fine selection of water sources but thats about it. I didn't really feel any great empathy with any of the characters and started to see their deaths as signals that the end was in sight(in terms of the film).
I haven't read the book but I would imagine I would have enjoyed it much more than the movie. Overall I felt it was a missed opportunity.