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Title: Interminable, cliched, uninvolving. . .
Review: This movie comes across as having been conceived by amateurs. You don't care a hoot for any of the characters. Indeed, there are no characterizations at all. The wolves have more depth of character than the actors, which isn't saying much because they look like phony studio props. The movie plods through ice and snow, or finds its characters sitting around the ole campfire shooting the cliched breeze, punctuated by occasional wolf attacks, and flashbacks that add nothing of depth to the story. There's no dramatic arc whatsoever. The movie simply doesn't engage you on any level. It was apparently based on a short story written by a friend of the director. But it comes across as something you might get the guys in high school together to do -- hey, let's shoot a film, and we'll just sit around and improvise cliched dialogue and see what we come up with.
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