The first ten minutes of the movie she brings coffee to her grieving son, goes jogging, is phoned by her daughter, talks some more on the phone with different people. So far, the acting is presentable, no major slips, all good.
Then, the movie turns into the main plot, and that's where it goes all wrong. Bad script, worse acting. Obviously, neither Watts nor the director have ever done some serious in-the-woods-jogging. Running, panicking, slipping, falling, hurting, yet all the while, calling all kinds of people, watching the news over the mobile (perfect signal, by the way, with streaming live pictures no less, those woods must have been somewhere near Hogwarts). At some point (later) she actually seems to redial a number she just called, digit by digit. No need to go into details, it has been described in other reviews. Suffice to say that it must be very hard a task for one actor to single handidly bare the motherload of the pic. Hanks did it in Cast away and was brilliant, Gyllenhall recently did it in The guilty, and was quite presentable. Watts, however lost to this one. The fact that, pretty soon into the movie you kinda sense where this is going, nevermind the following twist, doesn't help.
Then, the movie turns into the main plot, and that's where it goes all wrong. Bad script, worse acting. Obviously, neither Watts nor the director have ever done some serious in-the-woods-jogging. Running, panicking, slipping, falling, hurting, yet all the while, calling all kinds of people, watching the news over the mobile (perfect signal, by the way, with streaming live pictures no less, those woods must have been somewhere near Hogwarts). At some point (later) she actually seems to redial a number she just called, digit by digit. No need to go into details, it has been described in other reviews. Suffice to say that it must be very hard a task for one actor to single handidly bare the motherload of the pic. Hanks did it in Cast away and was brilliant, Gyllenhall recently did it in The guilty, and was quite presentable. Watts, however lost to this one. The fact that, pretty soon into the movie you kinda sense where this is going, nevermind the following twist, doesn't help.