A Lonely Place to Die
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A Lonely Place to Die

2011
★★½

Watched 12 Jan 2019

Watched on Amazon Prime

I actually thought I'd seen this movie before. The beginning even seemed familiar, but bit by bit the story hit hooks I couldn't remember. After half an hour I checked and found out that I had confused it with the film High Lane. High Lane was quite good. A Lonely Place To Die is unfortunately a bit mixed.

In any case, you can see the sense of staging of the makers and a certain feeling for tension. Especially the first 45 minutes are marked by great nature shots of the Scottish Highlands. While the beginning gives us hope for a thrilling survival mountaineering movie, the story quickly develops into a classic thriller.

However, the introduction of new characters is quite clumsy. In general, I quickly wondered that there is a lot going on at this lonely place to die and that there are a lot of characters involved.

At the end this setting is even abandoned in favor of a small town, which leads the movie title completely ad absurdum. If you watch the first 30 minutes and the last 20, you might think that they are 2 different movies. Unfortunately, I would have liked to have seen much more of the first 30 minutes instead of the last 20.

The cast is quite appealing. I always like to see Melissa George and Sean Harris is also quite nice.

Useful for a unique watch, if you ignore a few stupid things in the script.

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