The greatest movie ever!

Excellent, a Must See

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

She walks through the snow day after day with no hat, coat, mittens, etc. and yet doesn't suffer frostbite or even seem cold...amazing! And no blanket to speak of...no socks...terribly unrealistic...many aspects of the movie are poorly done in this way, including how a woman would likely act under such a situation...why wouldn't she have taken the clothes (and hat!) off the dead man as well as the boots!! And she strolls along through the woods as if going on a picnic. One of the strangest movies I have ever seen. It could have been a decent drama if more thought had been put into some very commonsense things, most especially to the fact that one cannot walk around in winter snow in a dress with no coat or hat and seem just dandy.

I watched this movie on New Years day. I was in horizontal hangover mode and vowed to not leave the couch all day. I wasted many youthful hours playing the video game "the Oregon trail" in the 90's and chose this movie thinking it would be exciting, adventurous and full of action.wrong. I kept waiting for something to happen, but nothing did. just a terrified girl that walks around in a flat part of the woods for the entirety of the movie, looking terrified. About 45 minutes into the movie I regretted my decision but could not find the remote within reaching distance. I was so terribly hungover and in DGAF mode that I just lied there and continued to suffer through watching that chick continuously stop to open her suitcase, take things out, put things back in, and walk 3 more feet, stop, open the suitcase, take things out, put things back in, run a few more feet.It's a low budget film so I'll forgive the zippers on the boots and dress. But I can't forgive the fact she's wearing a dress as thin as a sheet but doesn't freeze to death like all the other rando white dead people that she keeps stumbling upon. I also found it hard to believe a bunch of Indians would attack a covered wagon and not completely pillage through the belongings inside. the end of the movie was the worst of all, I won't give away any spoilers but I def thought to myself "wtf" as the end credits began. If I had had any brain cells left that day I wouldn't have been able to sit through this, but because I was basically a pile of mush from a boozed-filled night of NYE fun, and too lazy to look for the remote in the couch cushions, I endured this 90 minute marathon of lameness.

I tell you what I saw: 90 minutes of pure depression. I'm giving the no spoilers version so people can be properly warned BEFORE they watch. The movie was ill-conceived and had me asking "what?" and "why did she do that?" throughout. Then there were the camera shots of her looking around. I never did see what she saw. I also disliked how the story was moved along perhaps a dozen times by the following sequence: a closeup of the girl, a slight change in facial expression and then the music starts. Viewers are left guessing as to what she's looking at or thinking or heard, etc, so many times that I just gave up. There was little to no character development and the climax was like a little mosquito bite right at the end of your toe. Too little too late, not mention annoying! I never connected with any character and was a bit confused as to why she didn't just decide differently again and again. I'm so angry right now that I signed up for am IMDb account just to give this a poor review. I would also like to mention that the religious undertones are just out of place and actually helped to misguide a lot of the movie. Where the writer probably intended these mentions of God or religion to be what kept her going, I saw that her blind faith had caused her to neglect certain common sense truths of the world and of survival, which made her decisions nonsensical and actually hurt the story. Goodnight.

I've read all the reviews pointing to the obvious problems with zippers, sweating, costumes, etc.... and I noticed that too but I think it is short-sighted not to point out the things that worked in this movie. This was the director's first film on a very, very small budget and I think he accomplished some very effective scenes. The attack scene was pure genius because it creates terror with no extra expense using a bunch of actors, etc.. The viewer experiences it completely from the woman's point of view. The lead actress is excellent and well directed! I also thought the camera movement around the woman in the woods was excellent and created genuine suspense. Making films is extremely difficult and to just pick away at all the details of sweating, zippers and undergarments, and the fact she never wears a coat is all legit but stops short of the redeeming qualities of this film. In the Coen brothers' re-make of "True Grit" the girl is completely dry after riding her horse across a river! And that's the very well-financed, acclaimed Coen brothers! This film maker has genuine potential and should be encouraged to make more films.