The movie stars John Bain (The Least of These), Erica Hoag (The Legend of Bloody Jack), Nathan Halliday, Bill Oberst Jr (The Shunning, Princess and the Pony), and Elvis Winterbottom.
The plot is after being left in the desert a boy is intergrated into a "family" of two other kids left behind by society. They have to survive by any means necessary which elevates to a breaking point.
The opening was nice wat to visually start a movie. It did take too long to get started. They could of cut some and added more detail or make fewer cuts later in the film. The movie maintains a level just below a point where I would say was good. It was consistant but just did not get to a point where it was good.
The charactrer of Jack is hard for me to get to a point of liking or even relating to. The way he is is beleivable and he did a good job but totally unsympathetic to me. I think that is why I have some reservations about the movie but I can understand why he was written that way.
I could not make out the festivals at the top of the DVD cover. But this movie seems to be just the kind of film that would do well at places like Sundance or Toranto. I dont know if I would say its formulaic but it does seem to have some common charactistics of fims at festivals.
The only line of dialog I did not like too much was towards the end. It was"everything is going to be alright." It seemed like something out of a bad horror movie right before someone gets killed.
Im rating this movie as a C-. If I were recomending it to me I would say to me skip it. But I could see this movie being on top ten lists of critcs. It may be worth your time even thought I did not like it that much.
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