I am happy to see Canada so beautifully captured on the screen. So you know what's going to happen right to the end. He just lost his wife, and she doesn't seem overly joyed about her impending wedding and her husband, Mark (Dermot Mulroney). Why then does the old trope of the damsel in distress come to mind? Why not,in a film shameless with tear jerking. More outrageous than the clichéd circumstance is the fact that she needs medical help consistently where he just needs it toward the end. Always with the thought of what we would do in those circumstances. During that blessed time we can enjoy the spectacle and the survival techniques. To be fair, director Hany Abu-Assad and his writers J.Mills Goodloe and Chris Weitz keep the real romance from happening through at least half the film. Lest I forget, a lovable dog also is a tie to bind. Why wouldn't they fall in love with no one else around and such attractive people to boot? That they both are vulnerable becomes obvious that they will fall in love is a given of the genre and maybe of survival itself when there's no one else around. If Nicholas Sparks could do lost in the snow, then he could have written this rather trite and predictable romance. They are lost in the cold snow somewhere in the mountains of Idaho or Colorado after a small plane accident, but fortunately he's a neurosurgeon and she's a plucky photographer.
Two factors save The Mountain Between Us from romantic oblivion: Breathtaking cinematography (Mandy Walker) and two fine actors, Idris Elba as Ben and Kate Winslet as Alex.
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