It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This was a very odd choice of movie, with a highly specific setting and setup. Basically, three sexy young people get stranded on a ski lift and forgotten, due to a rather admittedly clever sequence of events in which the one operator they beg to let them on tells the next guy to watch out for 3 young people coming down the mountain, only for that other guy to spot 3 completely different people SKIING down the mountain and decide that's them and closes up the operation. That leaves these three stuck up there, with the threat of being stuck there for nearly a week. Right away, the most obvious risk is that of freezing cold. After that comes the risk of random wolves that apparently were not sufficiently scared away from the mountain to meander about. At this point, the stage is set for this to become a puzzle movie. The characters have their bits of backstory and dialogue and interactions but none of that is particularly interesting or important, as the whole of the movie at this point became a puzzle for me. How best to escape this situation?One of the characters thoughtfully throws a wrench into my most obvious initial idea of just jumping off when he hits the ground and we find that the snow isn't nearly as thick or soft as we thought and he ends up breaking his legs rather severely. This also opens up a mini-puzzle for him, in terms of How best to fight off the wolves. Without spoiling the sequence of events and the decisions made by the characters, even after the end of the film I think only about how best to escape the scenario.

at the beginning of the film, three friends (loving couple and a best friend) come to rest on a ski resort on the last day of the week. they want to go down from the mountain on skis, but the attraction is already closed. They bribe the guard and sit down in the ski lift. The day guard ends and the he is replaces with another who does not know about the students in the ski lift suspended far above ground, isolated, with no one knowing about it(and no way to contact anyone)

The third-to-last group down the slope tells security there's a group of three still coming. The wrong group of three came, so the lift closed. The guy didn't keep in mind they didn't mention what they look like/what they're wearing. Especially in a situation like this, don't ASSUME. And don't just take Joe Shmoe's word for it. Always make sure everyone's accounted for.

first i thought it was based on true story. after few skipping of the boring scenes i realized it was more of a final destination type of flick even those were more plausible. it could have been a good 'survival' thriller if those details were worked out so that the audience with a bit of common sense wouldn't be offended or annoyed. ignoring the unlikely-to-happen details like the wolfs and ski resort being closed next day, even with a bit of common sense the youngsters would not make such fatal mistakes such as: rope from clothing or using the ski pole, also ski pole was used to defend against wolfs for second guy why not first?, jumping down carefully with knees up your chin from the lowest height ? climbing first on cable with feet as well with more padded protected hands done by piece of clothing perhaps, when jumping from broken lift knowing it will fall down as well and not rolling fast out of the way...movie must have been written by the blondie that held the rail by bare hand while having a glove on the other hand.