I saw the previews for this film and it looked so intriguing, I just had to see it. For some reason I just loved it at first. Even though all Overgard did was check his fishing line, turn a crank, etc., it was compelling and interesting seeing him in this strict routine, trying to make it until he was rescued. Once the helicopter crashes, it just slowly loses something for me. I didn't understand why he would leave where he was, being as the helicopter had JUST crashed there. So every time something happened, like not being able to get the girl up that hill, I was telling the TV "that's why you should have stayed where you were at." It was frustrating. The movie was too much and at the same time not enough. Getting the girl to safety seemed to be the motivating factor, but the wound didnt seem to serious at the beginning and he rarely checked it until he decided to leave her. And come on!!! You have a potential rescue right in front of you and you throw yourself down the hill to go get this girl, when you could have taken off toward the rescuers and lead them back to her??? Him resigning himself to dying and her also dying after all he put himself through to get her possibly rescued...and then having the helicopter land behind them, fell flat. It would have been a better ending to have them seen right off and rescued or not being seen at all and dying.
Review of Arctic
