Review of Backcountry (2015) by Dlinkler — 24 Mar 2015

Well acted, script was fairly well written, but the story line was terrible, obviously conceived by someone who had little to no experience in the 'backcountry'. Based on actual events? Perhaps, but no doubt doubt grossly dramatized, and distorted.

Good lord, The film was painful to watch, the stupidity, the total absence of common sense, who wrote this? Within the first 10 to 15 minutes of this film I knew without a doubt that these people, especially the macho, clueless boyfriend, deserved to die.

The encounters with the Bear were particularly unbelievable. Using bear spray in a tent? And neither of them suffer any ill affects, except the bear, please, it doesn't get more unreal than that. And it only goes downhill from there.

Another clueless story about survival in the wild written by people who have no idea what they are writing about. Mildly amusing, but nevertheless a sad film where from the beginning you are just rooting for the bear to end this ridiculous tale, yet it drags on and on till the bitter end.

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