As Good As It Gets

Absolutely brilliant

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Being stuck on a mountain trying to get to safety takes endurance, sadly not for the actors but the viewers. If you are thinking about watching this movie go to Homebase buy a tin of white paint, paint a square and watch it for two hours, even my Sky box thought it was longer 120 minutes rather than the run time of 112 minutes. The story two people crash land on a mountain with lassie the wonder dog who can see of mountain cats, sense when you are slipping into hypothermia, locate cabins in the wilderness. The dog out acts both Idris Elba and Kate Winslet who appear in a coma throughout the film. I have rarely seen so little screen chemistry, in fact the appear to dislike each other, in the inevitable love scene in the cabin she turns away like she would rather be anywhere rather than having this bloke humping above her. They are suppose to be on a mountain in freezing conditions yet they stroll of the mountain and at one point he is throwing sticks for the dog to play fetch, having been stuck in a snow drift when the beast of the East arrived, you go cold quickly, not these two. Some people have praised the cinematography but I thought it was poor, there should have been more lingering shots to convey the desolation and the huge wilderness. The movie I shot like they are on a winter wonderland vacation.

The story is implausible, as you know all fictional survival stories must be. And yet we could put up with the unbelivability of it all if the actors were good to watch, but no, there is very little chemistry between them. It was just watching two actors saying their lines, trying to get it over with. The sex scene was wooden and cringey. I can't help thinking if Michael Fassbender took the role (as he was the first choice), this might have turned out better. Idris Elba couldn't melt butter and Kate Winslet didn't want to be there. The best actor was the dog. (Why is he listed at the bottom of the cast??) Reason to watch this? Not if there is something better.

Read the book, enjoyed the book, predictable but enjoyable. It appears the film is not even based on the book except for them crashing on a mountain. Literally nothing else is the same or similar. Winslet was walking round in the snow!?! Turned it off after 40 mins. Even if you had not read the book you would be bored. Read the book instead.

It is a bit of an ordeal and the star is a retriever who survives a plane crash and then saves two humans from attack and helps them back to civilisation despite their attempts todo other non- dog stuff. Dogs ends up in London and waits patiently while the humans learn how to love. The dog knows this already even though his first owner Walter dies in the crash.Great dog film.