When I saw the trailer to this movie, I was excited. I love movies set in isolated, snowy wilderness locales, I love Kate Beckinsale, I usually love Tom Skerritt, and above all I really love Horror/Thrillers. Serial killer flicks just do it for me, as do movies like this which are basically "Adult Slashers."
I guess I should have known that it would suck after going through so many rewrites, reshoots, acting and directing changes, and sitting on the shelf for the better part of two years, as that doesn't generally happen to good movies.
Why does it suck? Mainly because it should have been so much better. Great setting, great premise, strong acting talent... but the storyline, script and pacing were so predictable and weak, that everything else ceased to matter one bit. I guessed the "Twist" near the beginning (and I'm not bragging, it was just that obvious), and it was lame. Worse still was the dialogue, which was so bad in places that it made the pacing seem even more tired and slow than it was on its own.
Kate Beckinsale is hot and a decent actress, and I felt bad for her as an actress, having to plod through this script. She's much better than the shite that she has to work with here, as is Tom Skerritt for that matter, and they both seemed to be trapped not by an impending Antarctic whiteout, but by the trappings of a shoddy movie.
I will say that the movie's poster is truly awesome. Do yourself a favor at stare at it for 90 minutes, and don't waste your time on this blizzard of crap. Watch the Fritt Vilt movies instead if you want to see good snowbound slashers.
