I don't get the really poopy reviews. This is an excellent movie - a great story, great acting, incredible cinematography...
well, I had figured that the real reason people hate it is because it's set in Manitoba, and filmed in Manitoba, and after all, where the heck is Manitoba? If it had been filmed in Alaska or Wyoming or Montana, it would have been on their list of classics ;>
It's on *my* list of classics. This is nominally an action/adventure, but it is truthfully a *yarn*. A yarn is an old-fashioned sort of movie concept. I think of movies like Windjammer or other films that have been done in the north, stories set against a big canvas, man against nature, like that.
It's about risk, danger, human relations, redemption. All that. This is a terrific movie.
It's about risk, danger, human relations, redemption. All that. This is a terrific movie.