I laughed at it and enjoyed the hell out of it. I don’t see those two things as mutually exclusive. It’s said you have a choice at a movie like The Mountain Between Us: Laugh at it or go with it. After Ben reams her out for getting him into this mess, she takes off on her own in a huff and goes about a minute and a huff before looking like she knows it’s a terrible idea.
Alex believes that - despite her broken leg - they’d have a better chance tromping over 12-foot drifts astride vertiginous drop-offs hoping to stumble on the odd cave or ski resort or maybe get one bar on Ben’s phone. Ben, hoping for imminent rescue, wants to stay in the surviving piece of the plane at the top of a ridge with its crackling fire and supply of mountain-lion kebabs. Winslet’s character, Alex, is now a crusading photojournalist, and while she does require a lot of saving, she gets to save Ben, too, and even square off alone against a hungry mountain lion.Īlex and Ben quarrel more than in the book, which means more interesting drama but also more instances in which Alex looks like an idiot. Mills Goodloe and Chris Weitz) made to convert a male-savior fantasy into one more in tune with 2017 female expectations. I read Charles Martin’s novel on which the movie is based so you don’t have to, and it was interesting to see what changes the screenwriters (J. I should have mentioned that Kate Winslet is the other stranger on whom one’s life might depend and, despite protracted periods of unconsciousness, she’s no slouch when it comes to survival. He’s so utterly gorgeous that it’s hard for the audience to pay full attention to the crisis at hand: two people thousands of feet above sea level in subzero temperatures with little food and no one who knows even their approximate location because the pilot of their small plane filed no flight plan before having a heart attack at the controls. He plays Ben Bass, a British neurosurgeon who, even with cracked ribs, effortlessly braces and ices broken limbs, stitches wounds, and devises a homemade saline drip for treating dehydration.
Idris Elba with a medical degree, I’d like my chances. If it were Rob Schneider, I’d throw myself off a cliff before the wolves could get me. The poster for the wilderness-survival saga The Mountain Between Us poses the question, “What if your life depended on a stranger?” My answer is that it would depend on the stranger. Photo: Kimberley French/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Kate Winslet and Idris Elba in The Mountain Between Us.
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