the way back... was expecting more out of this movie

Rating: 2/10 (3 May 2011)

*** WARNING this contains some spoilers *** I don't know where to begin with this movie. I was expecting something better organized and put together. I am a big fan of this type of genre-films like The Great Escape, Cool Hand Luke, The Shawshank Redemption etc. I was waiting for this movie to be released for quite some time, but after seeing it a big disappointment came to heart. The movie starts off very well, and begins to captivate the audience right from the start but as soon as the prisoners escape the compound the movie starts to dull out. Some of the things i really didn't enjoy in it were some of the scenes that were shot in the forest. In those scenes you could tell that it was a still studio shot because the trees and snow looked really fake. That is not the case with all the scenery you see in the movie thou. Another thing was the audio and sound bites, if you pay close attention when the young kid goes missing in the forest, when they search for him and yell out, the echo you hear just plainly "screams" we are filming in a small studio. I must admit i really found the movie to be kinda boring after the escape, there was not much plot and climax, and the poor dialogue between the actors was unsuitable. Another thing is, on top of things, I mean come on Collin Farrell playing a Russian thug... i was expecting his role in the movie to be more versatile, so he is got a knife, so what? He doesn't use it very much and after you see the other escapees talk amongst themselves and saying that they should take him along for the escape because he has a knife you would think that you would see some hunting/survival techniques etc. but you don't. You see Collin Farrel with a blood stained shirt bringing back some food and vodka that he loots from a village they cross paths with. Overall i rated this movie a #2, and i must admit it hurt to do that, the lowest score i ever gave a movie since i been on IMDb.com from early 2000's and that is just because the only thing you could find worthy in the movie in my opinion its the scenery, it's what saves the movie from being deplorable.