This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

One of the most visually impressive movies on the new millienium. Sure the writing could have been better, but, in the end, who's watching something like this for Best Original Screenplay material? The filmmakers should be applauded for doing something ORIGINAL. Also, Edward Shearmur's original score fit like a glove. This is the route George Lucas should have taken with a brand new franchise rather than try to make the Prequels fit this mode.

This was true, unadultered, wilderness-survival-torture-pr0n! It was unrelenting in its bleakness and left me as cold as the mountain-wilderness setting. Additionally, Marc Streitenfeld's minimal score is almost completely snowed over by the film's bleakness.

Put simply...I wish more films made me feel the way this one does every time I watch it.