Title - The Mountain Between Us
Type - Feature Fiction
Genre - Romance, Adventure
Director - Hany Abu-Assad
Country - USA
This film left me nostalgic of several of its kind - survival films - that I have watched over the years. That said it is not one of the best. It is not one of the worst either but something felt really lacklustre about the whole film.
I recall as a child my father rented us the first survival movie we'd see then - Man in the Wilderness (1971) - and we loved it! If you know of this movie you would immediately realise that Alejandro G. Iñárritu's 2015 film, The Revenant, was based on it. Now those were great survival films, sadly The Mountain Between Us falls short of this glory.
Do not get me wrong, I did not 'hate' this film. Idris Elba and Kate Winslet were obviously cast deliberately to carry what I feel was an average script. 21 years after the Titanic's release, we see Kate Winslet in a role where she has to struggle with cold weather once again. She puts up a good performance but definitely not her best given her filmography. Idris on the other hand works his way through the role semi-convincingly, just barely keeping off the margins of what would be a type-cast. I would have delved in a bit more to bringing out the realism that comes with such crises (plane crash in a snow mountain) and played out the psychological turmoil more than was done in this picture. Also, there is a 'shoop' scene where the stranded duo get the hots for each other in the cold - definitely a thing for parents to look out for if they usually watch flicks with their kids (though no real nudity was shown).
If indeed this was more bent on a drama-ish type of story I feel that then it would have been better to flesh-out the dialogue sequences which, again in my opinion, were shallow and rushed. As far as titles go, The Mountain Between Us, again in my view, would have made much more sense if the storyline was built heavily based on the relationships between those stranded and those they left behind. As it were in this film there was literally was no mountain between them because they seemed to be less involved (telling from dialogue) with the life they left behind and instead more focused on survival and each other. The Mountain Ahead of Us would have been more apt given that this film focused more on their struggle to overcome the crisis rather than the life they desired to return to.
Watch the film for yourself and enjoy it.
Rating - 3/5 stars
Review by Robert Mũnũku
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Type - Feature Fiction
Genre - Romance, Adventure
Director - Hany Abu-Assad
Country - USA
This film left me nostalgic of several of its kind - survival films - that I have watched over the years. That said it is not one of the best. It is not one of the worst either but something felt really lacklustre about the whole film.
I recall as a child my father rented us the first survival movie we'd see then - Man in the Wilderness (1971) - and we loved it! If you know of this movie you would immediately realise that Alejandro G. Iñárritu's 2015 film, The Revenant, was based on it. Now those were great survival films, sadly The Mountain Between Us falls short of this glory.
Do not get me wrong, I did not 'hate' this film. Idris Elba and Kate Winslet were obviously cast deliberately to carry what I feel was an average script. 21 years after the Titanic's release, we see Kate Winslet in a role where she has to struggle with cold weather once again. She puts up a good performance but definitely not her best given her filmography. Idris on the other hand works his way through the role semi-convincingly, just barely keeping off the margins of what would be a type-cast. I would have delved in a bit more to bringing out the realism that comes with such crises (plane crash in a snow mountain) and played out the psychological turmoil more than was done in this picture. Also, there is a 'shoop' scene where the stranded duo get the hots for each other in the cold - definitely a thing for parents to look out for if they usually watch flicks with their kids (though no real nudity was shown).
If indeed this was more bent on a drama-ish type of story I feel that then it would have been better to flesh-out the dialogue sequences which, again in my opinion, were shallow and rushed. As far as titles go, The Mountain Between Us, again in my view, would have made much more sense if the storyline was built heavily based on the relationships between those stranded and those they left behind. As it were in this film there was literally was no mountain between them because they seemed to be less involved (telling from dialogue) with the life they left behind and instead more focused on survival and each other. The Mountain Ahead of Us would have been more apt given that this film focused more on their struggle to overcome the crisis rather than the life they desired to return to.
Watch the film for yourself and enjoy it.
Rating - 3/5 stars
Review by Robert Mũnũku
Instagram - @nairobifilmgeek
Email - nairobifilmgeek@gmail.com
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