Joel Blackwell

Major holes in emotional and action plot. Great story, poorly told. SPOILERS Black toes indicate frostbitten toes, yet "John" recovers and runs away. Duh. Somehow, Pam learns about "John" and meets up with him, but still doesn't know his name? Duh. Two people in freezing cold blizzard both get soaking wet in a creek that would have been close to freezing and just keep on walking down the mountain? Duh. Some of this looks and feels like over dramatization by script writers who have never been outside or on a mountain or in heavy snow. While the script claims the rescue of John enables Pam's recovery from loss of her children, we don't see that happen; no indication of this critical development that should be the turning point for the central character. Nice try.

Almost never do you get to see honest, real raw emotion from honest real people about the reality of death, love, deep friendship and parenting. There is plenty of armrest clinching high altitude scary footage but this movie is about much, much more than climbing and the main character, Alex Lowe. And, yeah, plenty of beautiful scenery.

Interesting insight into tradecraft, but wish for more insight into motivation of the central character, Also didn't understand the initiating event ( a voice mail) in time sequence with the ending. The core plot of a woman spy falling for a target and the conflict because she's not Jewish enough for her Israeli managers makes a provocative internal conflict. The stress of beiing a female spy in an Islamic setting feels realistic as does the cold, clinical decision process of Mossad; Martin Freeman is convincing as the spy's sympathetic handler.

Like watching concrete harden. This "story" lacks plot, suspense, tension, character development, drama (no, actually, the pooping dog has a great scene jumping up the garage gate and the car, OMG!, the car grinding along the garage wall will tear your heart out!). If you want affirmation that your boring, ordinary, life in which nothing much ever happens is movie-worthy, here it is. Featuring an unknown indigenous woman who loves children and cleaning and long, langorous, sweeping pans of an banal living area will make you grab the fast forward button every five minutes. Perhaps the MeToo Movement lifts this borrrrring waste into Oscar land: The only two male characters are irresponsible rats; the women all heroic victims. Bottom Line: Don't Bother. -30-