Sorry, this movie sucks

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I mean come on! Weeks wandering through the wilderness and her dress wasn't even the slightest bit dirty. I'll give it one star because 1. I like nature 2. She has nice teeth

This movie was excellent and I highly recommend it. There is a very good presentation of the main character's Christian faith helping her to survive. (Rare in this day to see Hollywood present an historically accurate Christian character as something other than a two dimensional caricature!) Whether you share her faith or not, you come away from this movie realizing how important faith and hope are to overcoming obstacles and surviving against the odds. It is important to suspend one's disbelief in the improbability of the events depicted and focus more on the message of the film. I suspect that the bad reviews are from folks that just "don't get it." This movie is one that is safe to watch with the family and one which you'll be discussing after it's over.

I like to attend to details and in here we have many unexplained details.The cold weather and the womens attire beg for an explanation.Her various abilities to make a fire when there was no sun light.The 3 dead people who were dressed better than she was for the cold.The lack of a food source. and sometimes water.It is doubtful she lived through this experience.The child spoke a foreign tongue and she a teacher failed to communicate with him.These type movies always fix the language problem up front.They trade names and get basic words down pat.The child was dressed for cold weather better than she was.If a spirit why was he dressed so well.I loved this movie but there are too many leaps of fate to tolerate.It took on the idea of a fairy tale.I am looking toward the idea that it could have been better in its basic engineering.The main actress was excellent and all the other failures were overwhelmed by her superb acting ability.

The historical inaccuracies have been documented by others and there were many.One thing that bothered me particularly was the concept of a lone women, alone in the west, in winter, wearing only a light dress that never seemed to soil. She would have been dead in a day. I kept waiting for her to find some warm clothing so I could get past that.Her random encounters with dead, white people while wandering the woods also strained credulity. It's unlikely that most people would have left the established trail. Her chance meeting with the Indian boy was also a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment, however that seems to be explained (to a point) at the end.And regarding the end, from the way her husband spoke of "rumors" of gold out west, it was likely the winter of 1848-49, because after that it wasn't a few people following rumors, there was a full on migration. Even if it was 1849-50 or 50-51, what is a large, thriving settlement doing in the middle of the Rocky Mountains? I give it plus for the scenery and the Indian attack was well done as far as being a tense moment. Then again, they probably would have checked the wagon for guns, ammo, tools and food and found her. They killed her husband, grabbed the horses and left without looking inside the wagon?And food. They were on a months long journey and the only food she had along was a small bag of grits or oatmeal (or whatever it was) and a handful of beans? Same for the other wagon she encountered. No food inside at all?I got it at the end this movie was not made for general audiences, but for the "faithful". That audience will probably explain away all of the inconsistencies as god watching out for her, and they might like it.As for me, I thoroughly enjoy these "lone person surviving the odds" movies - when they are well done. This movie was not.