Truly Dreadful Film

Such a frustrating disappointment

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Jack (Brendan Fraser) is a tree hugger who gets himself landed in jail. He composes sappy letters to his daughter which are read to us in a low caveman voice. While Jack is in jail, his family (minus his separated wife/lawyer Lara Daans) are out camping when they run into a Steinbeck novel and become hunted. The film creates characters, but there is no connection to the viewer. The action isn't anything to get excited over. The main interest of the film becomes Kenny (Ethan Suplee). Kenny was in a truck accident and has some mental issues. He believes Jack's wife, who he talks to by cell phone, is his own mother. Apparently Canadian films has solved the problem of cell phone reception in remote areas.The cat and mouse chase in the woods seemed secondary to the film which was pushing the theme of Jack reconciling his actions with his daughter. It didn't mesh as well as it could. Makes for a desperation rental.Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

This is not the film you are looking for. It actually may not be the worst film you'll ever see either. It's the sort of film you can have on in the background whilst you do something else like writing a film review. It's brainless, it's harmless.Imagine Rain Man meets Forrest Gump with guns and that pretty much sums up the plot. Next you add in the seemingly endless peril of Starflight One and you start to fill up what is quite a short film. Now all that is left to do is to fill all other spaces with running around the forest a lot and utter the word 'run' a lot and there you have it.Plenty of TV programs and films appear full of guns with endless ammo and bad guys that couldn't hit a barn door from two paces. Picking on these aspects seems a little cruel. It's a bit like telling a puppy off for pooping in the kitchen, rubbing it's face in it and then telling it off for having a filthy face.Watch it if you like, it's an OK film but don't watch it if you take films way too seriously.

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday MorningJack (Brendan Fraser) was imprisoned after accidentally killing someone during an environmental protest. He now has his ex wife as his attorney, and is on the verge of securing his release, only to find himself working outside jail when his own kids find themselves hunted by Tony Baxter (Dominic Purcell) after witnessing him commit murder.This DVD offering has the right ingredients in place, in regards it's eerie atmosphere and setting, as well as a villain in the shape of Purcell, who has an undeniable presence in these roles that you just wish would be exploited in something better. But it never really comes together, and fails to develop in to a fully satisfying whole, thus never escaping it's restrictive DVD trappings. **

After watching half the movie, I decided not to allow the movie to insult me any further and stopped watching.What's wrong with this movie: (1) normal people who sees a gunman killing people would call the police. In this movie, nobody does.(2) if you knock down an opponent with a weapon, take the weapon from the opponent and make sure he doesn't gets up. In this movie, when the good guy knocks down the opponent, he runs without doing any of the above.(3) if you have a rifle with a scope, you hide, take good aim and snipe at your opponent. In this movie, the guy with the rifle stands in the open, shoots without aiming and misses.(4) if someone with a scoped rifle is hunting you, you try to stay hidden. In this movie, the good guys hop into a canoe, paddle in the river with clear view from surrounding areas and make themselves easy targets.A bad movie is one thing, a movie made to insult my intelligence deserves a low rating.