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I will be in a minority but I didn't like it very much. I enjoyed it, but I thought it was 45 minutes too long and pretty much every surprise scene in the movie has been done somewhere else in a movie well known enough that I could name it as I saw the scene. The bear scene was the exception and that was incredible. The scenery was fantastic but taking so long to pan the horizon every time the camera changed position got a little old for me and added time to the movie without moving the story forward. I also didn't like the ending. I think it will be like The Road to Perdition was for Tom Hanks - a lot of early buzz and breathless reviews but it didn't stand up over time and is now mostly forgotten.

I am certain my opinion will be a minority of one, so no one should avoid seeing the movie based on my experience. I did enjoy the movie but I wouldn't see it again and Everything that I didn't like about it were exactly the things that made my two (college Age) sons love it.

I will say this. The movie was so intense and had such an impact that the entire theater filed out silently. It was as though we were leaving church after a funeral.