great computer graphics hard to tell what is real anymore

Rating: 7/10 (22 June 2012)

The computer graphic images were very good--most people don't realize how much of the film is computer graphics...most of the scenery...the make up effects sunburns etc...even Irene's swollen feet. The scenes in the river--the snake--all of it anymore is suspect! It has gotten so good that most people are not even aware of it.
Computer graphics work best in films like this which don't have a lot of indoor scenes--there is a tendency to make things too perfect that they need to fight and are most identifiable in city and indoor scenes. The real world is blander and more imperfect.
Anyway finally to this film. It is all quite good and follows what I read years ago in Gulag Archipelago...the vast majority of prisoners were innocent. Stalin produced incalculable misery and murder--no unbiased person who reads Solzhenitsyn thinks other wise.
The actual story itself (6 prisoners escaping) is not true not even as an embellished version. If you want that try As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me....but be warned! that film is highly embellished and this movie script although fiction covers details of the camp and Soviet "ambiance" much more accurately and is a much more enjoyable watch. Suspend your disbelief.
The movie has a Polish accent literally...but represents the Stalin and Soviet repression very well.
The girl although contrived was handled nicely....I was fearful when she appeared that the movie would deteriorate into some stupid romantic drama---it did not.
Good entertainment RECOMMEND.