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Superficial yet utterly unappealing characters *spoilers*
posted by FergooseSTAFFMOD on December 8, 2018 at 6:28 AM
I found myself infuriated by this film. Four bell-ends keep bumping into each other on a hiking trail. The only honest scene is where Sheen is drunk and calls out his companions for the idiots they are. But for the sake of the story he must then buy them off with a nice hotel room and they can all pretend to be chums once more.
The level of insight we get over the course of two hours is that one character is a bit overweight, one is struggling to give up smoking and one probably feels guilty for being an unsupportive father.
There is also little attempt to capture the assorted glories of hiking. No aches and pains, no lingering shots of great vistas, no getting horribly lost etc. I really struggle to see what the purpose of this was after the central strand of a father/son relationship falls flat. Would this film have been made if it hadn't been led by a "big name" in the business in Estevez?
4/10
Reply by Jacinto Cupboard
on June 22, 2023 at 10:26 AM
There used to be a lot more of these slower paced movies but audiences increasingly want rapid resolutions, or better still: rapid complications. I'm fine with it. I'm old and I aint going anywhere in a hurry.
The arc of the movie is a simple metaphor. The Nesbitt character even gives a speech on the subject. Of course he has to, so that the audience knows that the writers of the film know perfectly well that this is a road to redemption movie and it's been done 100s of time before. But these are not often seen images or moral constructs, at least in movies. So it does offer something new.
As for the 'unappealing characters', my feeling was that each of them were unable to see their own damage until they saw it in the others, and how it diminished their lives.