Sadly Over-hyped

Fantastic!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Terrible terrible acting, terrible costume design for the alien. The only thing decent about this movie is the man vs wild tv show theme. They could have done so much better with that premise...even with the terrible actors. Just dont waste ure time.

I thought that the movie was really cool how the thing that was stalking him was copying everything that he did, and I think this movie is very underrated. It was interesting how he was a TV show host and was a survival expert. I really liked it, until all the tension and buildup of the thing stalking him turned out to be some crappy CGI alien thing. I thought that this movie could've been one of the best I've ever seen if the thing stalking him was a crazy guy who has killed anybody who entered the woods. The whole alien thing really ruined it for me and the ending was disappointing, but I still say that you should give it a try and watch it.

Actor Chris Diamantopoulos is a handsome guy. Viewers are made aware of this from the first minutes of this earnest, yet ultimately predictable exercise. Here, our intrepid male model is pretending to be a TV survivalist dropped in a remote Canadian wilderness filming a low-rent cable series about man vs nature. He has a satellite phone with which he calls his crew and "checks in" within hours of being set loose in a wilderness that's not really very remote, or wild. In one scene, while the director is attempting to ratchet up the tension about the "something" that ends up stalking the guy in the wild, you can see cars on a road behind him. Really. Not once can you actually believe he's out in the deep scary woods. Mr. Diamantopoulos has a very nice beard, which is sort of a character unto itself. Problem is, if this luxurious face-fur is unchecked by a razor for five days, shouldn't his neck beard fill in? This guy runs around in circles in the woods for five days dodging an alien that you figured out was the mystery chess player early on. The Beard remains trimmed, although no disposable razors are in sight. Sloppy film continuity ruins this small exercise, as do bad CG effects. Our lead actor really pulls out all the stops acting terrified, but suddenly has the presence of mind to scream "checkmate!!" at the alien he's just dispatched with a weird outboard motor attachment that was shown earlier in the movie. The director just couldn't help himself, so we get a snappy one-liner that was telegraphed way ahead of its utterance. One star for the Beard, one star for the human trap set by the alien (the only really scary thing seen here), and one star for the bunny who gets field stripped and eaten.

In a nod to self-filmed survival shows, a TV host is dropped in the remote Canadian wilderness to film himself for 5 days and then get picked up by his production team. Things start to go wrong, and he is convinced someone or something is messing with him. There are a few actual survival tips given in the early parts of the film.It's probably best not to know too much about what's going on before you've seen it. Thanks to a largely one-man performance by the underrated Chris Diamantopoulos, this film has a believability that another actor wouldn't have been able to carry off alone (imagine going from playing Moe in the three stooges movie to this - amazing).I was a little puzzled that the image on the poster appeared no place in the film. It was one of the reasons i picked the movie.