One of the best films i have seen

disgusting, overrated, pointless

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Being a climber myself, I was hoping to enjoy this movie, but as it goes on most mountaineering movies, the climbers make way too much mistakes to not be irritating.

PROS: The build up of tension was good and the idea was good. Those two things together were enough for me to stay in sync with the movie. I actually really like the whole premise of the movie in fact. It takes basic horror attributes and combines them in a creative way like never before. As I watched I felt as though I ended up being one with the plot. I was thinking with the characters not for the characters, I was scared with the characters not for the characters, and most importantly I felt the same as the characters. This really helped the intensity of the movie making it scarier and more frightening.CONS: The most irksome thing that was done in this movie was to forget where the movie came from. The director had a great idea to start, and then tried to add more and fancy it up, which it didn't need. This really made the film confusing and unwatchable. I just got lost which is disappointing. The other thing has to do with the acting. Although some characters were extremely well crafted, others felt flat and boring. With such a large cast it is important, even if you don't have good actors, to have good characters. I can't even say this movie had bothwww.chorror.com

You don't need a long winded review for this movie as it would be impossible anyway to flag all the discrepancies in the film."A Lonely Place to Die" starts off great with some awesome mountain climbing scenes that you really feel in the pit of your stomach. Indeed they should have let the script follow that narrative. Instead they delve into a kidnapping story that is poorly written and thought out.Without ruining the movie for you I will generically give you the first of many many non sequiturs in the film.Why O'why did the bad guys follow two of our protagonists to the cliff side (after our protagonists split up) when their prize was with the other half of the good guys? This is just the beginning of things that make no sense in this movie. It's the worst kind of movie as it starts out so promising, only to leave you shaking your head in disbelief at the end.

A group of mountain climbers led by the tough Alison (an excellent and convincing performance by Melissa George) discover a little girl named Anna (a fine portrayal by Holly Boyd) buried in the ground in the Scottish Highlands. It turns out that the girl was abducted. The group find themselves being pursued by the two kidnappers while a band of mercenaries hired by the girl's war criminal father show up to retrieve her. Director Julian Gilbey, who also co-wrote the script with William Gilbey, relates the gripping story at a brisk pace, builds plenty of gut-wrenching tension, maintains a hard gritty tone throughout, and offers a frighteningly vivid evocation of the danger of the wide open wildness (the mountain climbing scenes in particular are genuinely harrowing). The remote sylvan setting projects a strong and unsettling feeling of isolation and vulnerability. The sound acting by the able cast keeps the movie humming: Ed Speleers as brash novice Ed, Alec Newman as the rugged Rob, Kate Magowan as the sassy Jenny, Garry Sweeney as the cowardly Alex, Eamonn Walker as hard-nosed mercenary Andy, and Karel Roden as the pragmatic Darko. Moreover, this film further benefits form truly chilling contributions from Sean Harris as the merciless Mr. Kidd and Stephen McCole as the equally ruthless Mr. Mcrae. The outbursts of brutal violence pack a ferocious punch. Ali Asad's breathtaking cinematography boasts lots of stunning shots of the desolate Scottish forest landscape. Michael Richard Plowman's heart-pounding score does the pulse-quickening trick. A real nail-biter.