Tough-as-nails Liam Neeson Liam Neesons around, this time around the Alaskan wilderness as the tough-as-nails leader of a band of tough-as-nails Alaskan workers stranded after a plane crash. Hunted by wolves and bears, dealing with cold and exhaustion, and somehow they manage to take one of my favorite genres—the man-against-nature survival flick—and tough-as-nails it into being completely uninteresting.
An attempt at a poetic ending falls flat as it ends with an anticlimax of Neeson about to fight a wolf one-on-one, and reciting Shakespeare: "Once more into the fray"... and, roll credits without showing the fight or how the story ends. What kind of a viewer they think wants to watch a whole movie of Liam Neeson Liam Neesoning, but then would rather see him quote Shakespeare in the end than fight a wolf, is beyond me. Especiale as he'd just gone to the trouble of duct-taping broken airplane liquor bottles (which I guess he had the foresight to carry on their survival trek through the sub-zero wilderness, and managed not to lose ziplining over the cliff or getting swept away in the river) to his knuckles.
Well-made, for sure, and the wilderness is gorgeous. But, meh, kind of a waste of two hours.
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