Review of Winter's Bone (2010) by Michelle T — 02 Apr 2014

2010 - 1/5.

So here's a movie trying to piggy-back on J Law's current success; even though it came out a couple years before The Hunger Games.

This wasn't exactly on my "to-see" list. I just needed to watch a movie that I'd be able to stare at blankly for 1.5-2 hours. For whatever reason, I got the feeling that this movie would fit the bill. Because of the mood I was in, that's pretty much what I got from it.

Its obviously an independent movie because it was made to look gritty, yet artsy at the same time. I think the movie tried to have a dark undertone to it, but there wasn't a whole lot of substance to it. It was one-note; there weren't any ups and downs. I think the director played it safe and kept the plot level which meant that nothing exciting actually happened.

I have no problems with the acting. If anything, the acting was the movies strongest suit. There were times in which I thought that the director showed up in some small town in America and started filming the people.

Some things I read on IMDB and thought I'd share:

-It was a total bore with no climax.

-The film just kind of drags on for 100 minutes and then ends. It's not a poorly made film by any means, it just begs the question why anyone would bother to create it in the first place.