ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

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

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

SnoopyStyle Joe Braven (Jason Momoa) has his family and his logging company. His father Linden (Stephen Lang) suffers from dementia. After a bar fight, pressure builds to put his Pops into a home. He resists and takes Pops out to his cabin. Unbeknownst to him, one of his log truck drivers, Weston, is transporting drugs with Hallett. They crash on a snowy road and rush to hide the drug stash in Joe's shack. The incompetent pair's drug boss Kassen (Garret Dillahunt) leads the gang to recover his drugs the next day and it becomes a deadly cat and mouse game.The first half is a bit slow. It spends too much time with the family. Introducing Joe as a family man should not take this much screen time. His father's dementia feels like a side plot point. It could have come in handy to instigate the standoff but the ignition is more problematic than that. There are different ways for Joe to ignite the confrontation. Splitting the drug stash in half is one of the inferior options. He should probably try to give it all to Kassen hoping that he would leave on his own accord. I doubt Kassen could ever leave the cabin without securing all of his drugs. Joe's plan is an unlikely pipe dream. His father's dementia could have been used as a catalyst for everything. The daughter's jacket is too bright purple. A smart man would turn it inside out for better camouflage. Joe ends up using too many special weapons. It's a little too Home Alone. I do like Momoa, Dillahunt, and Lang. They fit the setting and the manhunt plot. The cabin is probably too nice and the production couldn't afford to do much damage. They would probably be better off with a rundown shack where the bad guys can shoot the hell up. They could burn it down for real rather than the obvious fake fires. The second half does have some cat and mouse fun. This is good enough.

jjstetch I'm a very picky movie watcher and often turn off a movie 10-20 minutes in. I don't understand the bad reviews above. It kept my attention every minute, the characters were all highly distinct from one another, I loved the acting, and I really felt the cold and the space as though I was right there. I also thought it was pretty original to have a cabin scene with deciduous trees not far from rocky cliffs by the ocean.

lostmohican Keep at it, Jason, you'll get there eventually. And your acting was not the worst thing about Braven. It was just a dumb movie. Dumb as in the audience won't notice all the stupid things we do. It was pretty bad when Dillahunt's character tells us "I think Joe's daughter was in the cabin and now she's headed to the top of the mountain looking for cell service. Go find her."It got worse when Braven dropped his knife in the snow as a distraction device and then climbed a tree from which he sprang on a villain with nothing but his coat.Or when he was chasing Dillahunt's character but first had to fill a duffle bag with stuff from his cabin; everything but guns and knives.Or Braven's wife being a master shot with her compound bow, but unable to place an arrow on the string at one point. Or using her bow to land numerous blows to a villain and it not blowing up in the process.You know, little things like that, and there were oh so many others.Ok, one more. The stupid deputy who comes to the rescue; advances in the open against an armed villain behind cover and is mowed down. Yeah, that's not exactly a new one as far as dumb movies go.

firefox-45945 I'll admit, I waited to watch this movie until I just didn't have anything else to watch. I thought it was just going to be another Jason Mamoa badass action movie and honestly, from the trailers, it was made to look that way. Right from the start I was proven wrong. Jason Mamoa was obviously in his element in this movie. I have never seen his acting so natural and fluid. Drop the super hero badass, the big bad badass, this guy can really act! I was continually impressed with even the change in his voice. So much more natural. And he was not a badass in this movie. He takes a lot of hits. He was a man of the wilderness who used his knowledge and ingrained need to protect his family to overcome the odds. Something that anyone with those skills could do. I liked him SOOO much better in this movie and I hope he continues to do more. I know people like his big bad roles, and may not appreciate roles like these, but Jason, there are people who think you can be more than a deep voiced bad boy! This was awesome!