I guess I'm going to have to elaborate on the huge amounts of mental retardation this film was filled with.
1st we have the whiney suicidal 50 year emo who we seem be to getting led to believe throughout the film that he got chucked by his wife for an unknown reason and so sulked off to the arse end of the world. we're then told at the end of the film that she didn't chuck him but in fact died. this facet of his almost non existent personality is only ever brought up when one of his unlucky cohorts asks where he went to when he left the bar. As if posing the question that if he is suicidal then why should he be trusted to be responsible for everyone else's lives if he doesn't care about his own. This plot point then goes unanswered because 1: it's brought up too late in the story and 2: It doesn't seem to matter what he does or doesn't do to save everyone cos they all end up dead anway.
What's more annoying is that the protagonist could've been a very interesting character but rather than spending time exploring his personality, we're instead fobbed off with pointless philosophising in the form of his letter to his wife and his bad poetry.
So moving on from the non existent characterization what else is wrong with the movie.
Well, the aforementioned PIS and CIS.
Lets take the fact that it's blatantly stated that they need to reach the woods before nightfall and then they all decide to stand around saying 'words' about the dead because the weakest member says so. No reiterating the point about having to get a move on or be eaten by ravenous beasts. And low and behold what happens? On the way to the woods one of them gets eaten by ravenous beasts.
Then on to the completely unexplained guy who simply decides he can't be arsed anymore so sits on a log and waits to die while the other 2 walk off. the explanation given? That his life is that bad back home that seeing a lovely view of some trees and mountains for 5 minutes before being gored to death by wolves is apparently a better option than being alive.
Then there's the laws of physics defying drowning. The man is floating down stream feet 1st yet somehow still manages to bend his foot backward enough to slide between 2 rocks that he can't get it out from again? I'm almost entirely certain that the foot would be a lot easier to pull out than it war to put in.
There was about 50 more chin scratching moments of sheer bewilderment that happened in movie, mostly borne out of exceptional stupidity by the characters. One being the 1st lookout to get chomped. 'I'll go over hear out of the safety of the light to take a piss cos I'm embarrassed by my tiny cock despite the fact that everyone else is asleep anyway' BANG. I mean, you can forgive that level of CIS in an 80's b-movie horror but in a supposedly serious modern adult thriller?
I could go on and on if this was the day after seeing the movie as i remember there being a million examples like the above but it's now a couple of weeks since I seen it and all that remains is the recollection that it was a massive steaming pile of dung. The only redeeming bit being the guy imagining his daughter's hair tickling him rather than what was actually happening, namely, a huge wolf eating his throat out. That shit war proper laugh out loud hilarious and reminds me of a sketch from Frankie Boyle's tramadol nights where the guy imagines he's in a high class men's club trying expensive cigars with his friend when he's actually down a dirty alleyway sucking on 2 black guys cocks for drug money.
which incidentally brings up another point. Were those the same wolves? did they have jet backpacks like Lex Luthor in Superman 3 to get down those sheer cliff faces? Did they run along the cliffs until they found a way down then made a bee line right to where the guys were? What was up with that? SUPER MAGIC WOLVES!
Anyway, shit film. offended yet? No? Well then you're a ****! Hope that does the trick.