Review of The Donner Party (2009) by Clayton F — 15 May 2010
Crispin Glover stars in the story of the Donner Party, a group of men and women who left their homes in the mid-west to get to California where they could practice their religion freely. They get stuck in the Sierra Nevada mountain range and are forced to survive one of the worst winters of the century.
Crispin Glover is okay, he performs his usual stop-and-start, stuttering delivery. He looks like someone from this era and his face is quite gaunt. The other actors are pretty much average. The story is average. The cinematography is probably one of the better aspects of the film.
The story itself has been changed to make it more dramatic. Why? What's more dramatic than people being stuck in the mountains and being forced to eat each other? It's never a good sign when stories like this which are so well known are juiced up.
This review of The Donner Party (2009) was written by Clayton F on 15 May 2010.
The Donner Party has generally received mixed reviews.
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