A curious mixture of a film!
The first third is a leisurely portrayal of an elderly lone hunter, travelling the winter forests of Northern Maine in his mobile home. Tom Berenger does a fair job of establishing this surly, impassive, haunted character.
There's quite a genre in American movies where someone stumbles across a hold-all containing millions of dollars from a botched heist or a drug deal gone wrong.
The power of wishful thinking!
It's when the action starts that this film careers off the rails. The bad guys appear from nowhere and the whole thing descends into truly amateurish, completely unrealistic gun play. The second half of the film suggests that the makers ran out of money, or maybe that's just a charitable interpretation of the mess.
At least there are some fine shots of the snow bound woods to sustain the viewer.
The first hour of this boring exercise is tom wandering around the woods and shuffling around his mobile home. Its like watching paint dry.
The second part is totally unbelievable with the bad guys somehow tracking him down in the wilderness and tom taking a bullet to the chest and shrugging it off.
Like you do!
This film has no credit.
Avoid.
What begins as a touching character study, about an ailing veteran living in a motorhome and hunting in the woods of a wintry Maine, develops into a suspenseful thriller when he finds himself hunted by a gang of criminals. An aged Tom Berenger, in his best film for a long time, anchors the piece as a thoroughly believable character you’ll root for. He even has trouble bending to pick up his rifle.
On the down side, the film lacks high points, Tom’s behaviour sometimes seems contrived for the sake of the plot, and it will disappoint anyone looking for in-your-face action. Otherwise, set in an austere environment so well captured you can almost feel the chill, this is a seductive 90min watch.