LUNGS DO NOT BLEED FROM COLD AIR

Rating: 7/10 (15 April 2018)

Anyone who thinks your lungs bleed from breathing cold air rapidly is a damned idiot. Period. Pure fancy by people who have obviously zero experience living actively in a subzero environment. People who obviously just want to dupe audiences as an excuse to show medically imaginary, melodramatic, violent death scenes. As someone who lives in it, and regularly runs, sprints and engages in all manners of breathing subzero air that I can imagine I can confirm that your lungs don't bleed for an reason related to inhaling cold air via natural aspiration unless you have some other serious underlying medical condition causing them to do so. If this was at all remotely possible are you truly daft enough to believe hundreds of thousands of people would risk living daily in a subzero environment? How stupid and uneducated are filmgoing audiences and filmmakers getting, and how is it even possible with the wealth of knowledge available a few clicks away? Utter failure, especially following "inspired by actual events".
Suspension of disbelief aside, the rest of the film was ok. Entertaining (if even for its medical fantasy). Well-acted. Great cinematography. Mediocre plot and dialogue. Abysmal sound editing and mixing. Glamourized by one of the hottest native american women you will ever see in Julia Jones, however, I don't even have to be native american to be insulted by American filmmakers' penchants for employing beautiful half-asian women to depict native american women, per the actress playing the rapee, Kelsey CHOW. Really?...You REALLY couldn't find 1 more actual native american girl who could use a job acting?...Or do you simply assume your audience is that daft?
Extra points for going far enough with the rape scene, all too rare amidst prevalent disproportionate hypersensitivities of the day. I give this film a line from one of my favourite films of all time: "(He's) silly and he's ignorant, but he's got guts, and sometimes guts is enough!"