The start of this movie and in fact most part of the first hour was one big advertisement for heading to the Scottish highlands to do some hiking. Definitely got me thinking about booking a flight.
But that's about it as far as positive things go for this movie. It wasn't too difficult to figure out which characters are going to see the ending credits and which ones are the proverbial red shirts. The film is riddled with "why would you do that?" moments. Granted, it is a piece of fiction so you have to allow some insanity for the sake of suspense. Sadly, none of the events that clearly were supposed to be shockers managed to actually be shockers. There are so many inconsistencies here it just ridiculous. How about a marksman who first has no problem hitting a guy running away from him at full speed, but then wastes bullet after bullet trying to hit someone slowly climbing a steep slope a mere 50m away.
This movie also suffered from the "multiple endings" syndrome. During the last 15 minutes there were three scenes where I thought OK, now we fade to black and roll credits. And it did fade to black, but only to fade up to another scene again. They made sure to tie up all loose ends in this one. If the first "end" scene would have been the real ending scene, then this movie would have gained a couple of points in my book. Not because it would have saved 10 minutes of my time, but because then the ending would actually have been a bit of a surprise, considering how easy the rest of the plot had been to predict.
The score is for the scenery, the rest was just not up to par unfortunately.
But that's about it as far as positive things go for this movie. It wasn't too difficult to figure out which characters are going to see the ending credits and which ones are the proverbial red shirts. The film is riddled with "why would you do that?" moments. Granted, it is a piece of fiction so you have to allow some insanity for the sake of suspense. Sadly, none of the events that clearly were supposed to be shockers managed to actually be shockers. There are so many inconsistencies here it just ridiculous. How about a marksman who first has no problem hitting a guy running away from him at full speed, but then wastes bullet after bullet trying to hit someone slowly climbing a steep slope a mere 50m away.
This movie also suffered from the "multiple endings" syndrome. During the last 15 minutes there were three scenes where I thought OK, now we fade to black and roll credits. And it did fade to black, but only to fade up to another scene again. They made sure to tie up all loose ends in this one. If the first "end" scene would have been the real ending scene, then this movie would have gained a couple of points in my book. Not because it would have saved 10 minutes of my time, but because then the ending would actually have been a bit of a surprise, considering how easy the rest of the plot had been to predict.
The score is for the scenery, the rest was just not up to par unfortunately.