Review of Loup (2009) by Jason V — 10 Aug 2011

Beautiful!

Some beautiful images.

Shot in amazing landscapes of Siberia, full of mountains, hills, plains green with wonderful woods at the beginning, all this turning white for the main part of the movie.

Those landscapes under snow, during tempests, on the ice... and superb adventure.

Shot with temperatures around - 50 °C (- 58°F) during weeks... ouch!

I love this kind of movies (adventures in the wild dangerous, lethal nature), but I mostly go to see it cause the wolf is my fav animal since ever.

So, about those facts (animals, landscapes, adventure), I'm not at all disappointed.

It makes me wanna more (which I dream since ages) to live in the Great North, in an isolated trapper's hut in the woods, tens of miles away to any human presence.

But why 3,5 and not more then, you may wonder!?

Cause the history is interesting, but the script isn't great. It's a bit too common, not original enough, + there are some incoherences, like the fact the babies wolf grow up in a few days like they should've in weeks, or the fact the adult wolves never try to attack the hero, even when he play with their kids, and also the fact those babies aren't wild at all, and let him caress them waaayyy too fast to be credible.

Strange, coming from a director who's a specialist of those areas, people, nature. A man who lived so many trips in the Great North.

Otherways, the actors aren't professional, and don't play really good.

So, that explain my rating.

But I anyways really recommand it to the nature, snow, wolves, wild life... lovers!