Confessions of a Film Junkie: A review of “A Lonely Place to
Die”
By: Brian Cotnoir
“A Lonely Place to Die”
is a Scottish Thriller that was released in 2011 that follows a group of
mountain climbing/ hiking enthusiasts who are planning a big expedition through
the Scottish Highlands. While exploring they come across something mysterious
and unexpected. They find a young Serbian
girl who has been buried an underground bunker.
The mountain climbers frantically dig out the girl and pull her to
safety. They learn that the girls name
is Anna and that she has been kidnapped.
Two of mountain climbers go in search of help, but unfortunately they
are killed. So the others decide to go
off on their own and bring Anna to safety.
Shortly after their trek begins, the remaining mountain climbers realize
that they are being followed, and what’s worst the people following them are
Anna’s kidnappers and they want to kill the climbers and take Anna back so they
can get their ransom; now what started out as a day of hiking and mountain
climbing has turned into a day of survival.
“A
Lonely Place to Die” is a very dull film.
This film starts out so slowly, and it does being to pick up around the
23 minute mark. However, I found that
every time some excitement began to build the pay-off always came up flat. I mean, there’s very little interest or
action that happens. The characters all
give a bland performance, the motive behind the kidnappers isn’t all that good
either, and it’s just not entertaining.
Oh God, it's so dull! |
The only good thing that “A Lonely Place to
Die” offers is some excellent cinematography of the Scottish countryside. At times the shots of the Scottish
Countryside are so nice, it’s almost like you’re watching a “Tour Scotland”
commercial rather than a film. I can’t
say that I hate this film because I actually don’t, if anything I was more
disappointed in it. With a title like “A
Lonely Place to Die”, there are endless possibilities you can have for a plot,
this film just isn’t a cool sounding as its title might lead you to
believe. The plot feels like it was
hastily put together, and the end result was an incredibly dull film. I don’t
think I can recommend this film to anyone.
It’s too dull, and for all the good build up it has throughout the film,
the payoff is not worth it.
Sounds like this had nothing on 'In A Lonely Place'. Now that was chilling
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