A summertime canoe trip turns into a nightmare for four 14-year-old girls.A summertime canoe trip turns into a nightmare for four 14-year-old girls.A summertime canoe trip turns into a nightmare for four 14-year-old girls.
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Written by Kat Goldman
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The lack of believability in certain aspects of how even the basic instinct for survival is portrayed here is so unrealistic as to leave one wondering if this was conceived by a high schooler. The acting is surprisingly good and the cinematic direction is above par. Even the narration is tolerable. The hardest and most painful part of this movie to endure is the lack of realism and pragmatism on the part of the characters trying to survive in the wild. It simply and quickly becomes pretentious and irritating to watch seemingly smart people give up their god-given smarts to pursue a false sense of nobility while leaving common sense behind. It actually grated on me off more and more for the last 3/4 of the movie. You don't shout racial epithets while walking through bad neighborhoods and you don't carry rotting, bloody things endlessly through the woods for basically the same reason. When you see a decent movie that does SO much wrong inasmuch it is simply and completely so unrealistic, it is truly painful for the creative mind to endure. And, in this movie, to be specific, the character you most want to have respect and sympathy for becomes someone that you want slap back into reality every few minutes while you are wondering about what else is on TV at the moment.
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- transientdreams
- Apr 24, 2010
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- Alban, Ontario, Canada(Crooked Lake Lodge and Crooked Lake)
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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