That was an excellent one.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Disaster films where someone is stranded in the snowy mountain seem to arrive at regular intervals these days. The Mountain Between Us has bigger stars but not necessary a bigger budget.Ben Bass (Idris Elba) is a surgeon. Alex Martin (Kate Winslet) is a photojournalist. Both are stranded at an airport as their flight is cancelled due to bad weather. Although both people are strangers they team up and hire a small plane to take the to Denver so they can catch a connecting flight to New York.The pilot has a stroke and crashes the plane on a mountain top. No one knows that they flew out as the pilot did not file a flight plan. The pilot dies, Alex is injured, Ben and Alex need to get out of the mountains along with the pilot's dog.The two main leads give winsome performances, Alex is lucky that Ben is a doctor. It is too implausible and the added mushy love story is an unnecessary diversion. It just felt too laboured for my liking.

Hard to believe story and events, they just seem to coast in the face of death. The acting from the pair of them is absolutely shocking. Neither of them are believable. Zero chemistry. This has to be a low career point for both.

Being stuck on a mountain trying to get to safety takes endurance, sadly not for the actors but the viewers. If you are thinking about watching this movie go to Homebase buy a tin of white paint, paint a square and watch it for two hours, even my Sky box thought it was longer 120 minutes rather than the run time of 112 minutes. The story two people crash land on a mountain with lassie the wonder dog who can see of mountain cats, sense when you are slipping into hypothermia, locate cabins in the wilderness. The dog out acts both Idris Elba and Kate Winslet who appear in a coma throughout the film. I have rarely seen so little screen chemistry, in fact the appear to dislike each other, in the inevitable love scene in the cabin she turns away like she would rather be anywhere rather than having this bloke humping above her. They are suppose to be on a mountain in freezing conditions yet they stroll of the mountain and at one point he is throwing sticks for the dog to play fetch, having been stuck in a snow drift when the beast of the East arrived, you go cold quickly, not these two. Some people have praised the cinematography but I thought it was poor, there should have been more lingering shots to convey the desolation and the huge wilderness. The movie I shot like they are on a winter wonderland vacation.

I'm very surprised at the reasonably low rating of this movie. For me it was very enjoyable and engaging. You really get involved with the 2 characters story and spend the whole film really wondering if they will survive the plane disaster and circumstances they've found themselves in.Great acting and chemistry between Idris Elba & Kate Winslet and many "goosepimple" moments. A movie definitely worth watching!