When three skiers find themselves stranded on a chair lift at a New England ski resort that has closed for the next week, they are forced to make life or death choices that prove to be more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Another date movie-horror flick designed to scare tentative couples into each other's arms.
– Stephen Cole,
Globe and Mail,
5 Feb 2010
rotten:
A stuck chairlift just doesn't exert the same primal terror as a roiling sea, and to make up the difference, Green would need a better cast and sharper dialogue than he has here.
– Cliff Doerksen,
Chicago Reader,
5 Feb 2010
rotten:
Frozen is good for five minutes of "What would you do if?" games. Then it's just stiff as a board.
– Joe Neumaier,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb 2010
rotten:
There's not enough here for 90 minutes.
– A.O. Scott,
At the Movies,
8 Feb 2010
fresh:
Adam Green's taut, toe-curling survival thriller is better than it should be: the concept and the characters' behaviour are mostly plausible, the script is dark and funny, the acting is adequate, and the wildlife scenes are convincing.