Brandon Sousa

Very weak movie on almost all points. Wooden dialogue and survivalist nonsense meet a morally confused main character. The basic story is this -- a woman loses her husband and child in a car accident, and decides to go live alone in the forest. This is the standard set up for an independence-building, healing, getting back to nature story. However, here Robin Wright's character refuses to have a car or any connection to the outside world, despite many people warning her of the great danger over winter, and the fact that she's completely unprepared and uneducated about how to live off the land. She nearly dies, of course. When rescued and given groceries, she insists she doesn't need them and tries to refuse help, despite starving. No one who's hungry behaves so stupidly. More annoying even than this silliness is that there's no growth here -- she never heals from her loss, and simply intends to seal herself off from humanity for the rest of her life, and do essentially nothing. Worse yet, she treats the two people who care about her terribly. She ran off without telling her sister, who sobs in shock and relief at the end of the movie, two years later, when she finally gives her a call to tell her she's alive. When her rescuer / platonic love interest dies of cancer, she immediately leaves, apparently satisfied to skip the funeral, and showing no signs of mourning or sadness at the loss of her only friend. The main character is so robotic, in fact, she doesn't seem real at all, and that's the core problem with this otherwise silly movie.