Am I really reading this? An IMDB rating of 6.7! Scribes on this forum seriously awarding this sorry excuse for a motion picture 10/10!
You just can't have it both ways. Start off a movie as a virtual documentary of Inuit practices and then bizarrely try to turn it into a kidnap and chase thriller.
The"acting"(if you could call the collective on - camera awkwardness we see, that) was simply appalling. The dialogue (quite a bit of which wasn't even bothered to be sub - titled) ... dire! Characterisations were non - existent. The filming of the supposed action scenes was hideous. A case in point: the abduction! 6 or 7 minutes of close up silhouettes, murky shadows and muffled voices. And the editing! Somehow the bad guys equipped with a telescope no less, know the outnumbered good guys are coming, lay an ambush, but then are ambushed themselves by the one good guy (his son, sensibly, didn't seem to want a part in it) and we don't really know how it happens. It just does. And then much of the climactic battle is filmed from about 100 meters away from the combatants.
A homage to John Ford and The Searchers? The Coach would be rolling in his grave laughing hysterically.
You just can't have it both ways. Start off a movie as a virtual documentary of Inuit practices and then bizarrely try to turn it into a kidnap and chase thriller.
The"acting"(if you could call the collective on - camera awkwardness we see, that) was simply appalling. The dialogue (quite a bit of which wasn't even bothered to be sub - titled) ... dire! Characterisations were non - existent. The filming of the supposed action scenes was hideous. A case in point: the abduction! 6 or 7 minutes of close up silhouettes, murky shadows and muffled voices. And the editing! Somehow the bad guys equipped with a telescope no less, know the outnumbered good guys are coming, lay an ambush, but then are ambushed themselves by the one good guy (his son, sensibly, didn't seem to want a part in it) and we don't really know how it happens. It just does. And then much of the climactic battle is filmed from about 100 meters away from the combatants.
A homage to John Ford and The Searchers? The Coach would be rolling in his grave laughing hysterically.