Review of Wild

Wild (I) (2014)
3/10
Not all thats its cracked up to be
17 January 2015
this was suppose to Reese big comeback to the serious movies, Which I guess is why they put in all the nudity there.(She looks great though, for being 40+ and a mum) The landscape scenery is just fantastic at times, but always get interrupted by annoying flashbacks from her childhood or misspent youth. Which was just annoying as can be. you don't feel anything for her character, cause her background is all scrambled in flashbacks. A Little bit here a little bit there. The music in the movie, was kind of annoying. It wasn't really needed, and it didn't really fit.

When you gonna walk the Mojave desert I would expect you to have a sunscreen and sunglasses, not to mention drink a lot of water. Yet the only time we see Reese drink is when she's at the rest stops along the trail, which is supposedly few and far between. She also get no sunburn which is strange, considering she wear shorts and t-shirt all the time. But she get a heavy pack. rash. which they use every opportunity they can to show off. The problem is Reese as a trail walker isn't believable, she just can't convince me that she's the type, she always look to damn perfect. Her hair is always straight and groomed. Her make up is always perfect. It makes me wonder, have these people ever seen backpackers outside of travel magazines? They are usually filthy and dirty and their hair is a mess. Reese hasn't one strain of hair out of place. The only sign she's been walking in the desert heat, are some dust in her face She also seem to have very little direction. Considering it some sort of a famous hiking trail, I would assume its pretty good market. Especially when you think of all the 1000 of people, whom must have walked ahead of her, and who must have hiked it before. Yet Reese, seem to walk all over the place.

There was a scene midway into the movie, that made no sense at all. A man who stand on the street corner in some town delivering flyer's to passers by, comes over to talk to her. And suddenly she's afraid of him and start backing up, even though he's far outside her personal space and they're in the middle of a public street. At first I thought she knew him from her past. But as it turned out, they were complete stranger to each other
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