No major spoilers, but marked it as such just in case.
I thought this movie was fine as is. It's not groundbreaking cinema, but it isn't a heap of trash either. I think the movie was definitely drawn out at parts and it seemed as if the cold atmosphere of the snowy mountains laid the foundation for the at-times cold relationship between our two only characters.
I gave the movie an 8 because I feel that it did the best it could with what it had. Backstories could have been developed more strongly which would have made the audience feel the connection between the two more efficiently. I felt that Idris Elba has yet again solidified himself as one of the most underrated gentlemen actors of our age. Someone needs to give this man a career defining role.
Other than that, you have two acting juggernauts who are prancing around a snowy mountainside just as delicately as they prance around an otherwise cold and unengaging script. In movies like this, dialogue is everything, and sadly, it felt lacking at times. There was an opportunity to give off Richard Linklater emotions with the movie and it just feel a bit flat.
Nothing to rush to your theater for, but not a waste of time.
8/10
I thought this movie was fine as is. It's not groundbreaking cinema, but it isn't a heap of trash either. I think the movie was definitely drawn out at parts and it seemed as if the cold atmosphere of the snowy mountains laid the foundation for the at-times cold relationship between our two only characters.
I gave the movie an 8 because I feel that it did the best it could with what it had. Backstories could have been developed more strongly which would have made the audience feel the connection between the two more efficiently. I felt that Idris Elba has yet again solidified himself as one of the most underrated gentlemen actors of our age. Someone needs to give this man a career defining role.
Other than that, you have two acting juggernauts who are prancing around a snowy mountainside just as delicately as they prance around an otherwise cold and unengaging script. In movies like this, dialogue is everything, and sadly, it felt lacking at times. There was an opportunity to give off Richard Linklater emotions with the movie and it just feel a bit flat.
Nothing to rush to your theater for, but not a waste of time.
8/10