They know they have an ordeal ahead, but we know something, too, and that’s that virtually nothing can happen for the rest of the movie until they’re rescued. So that when Alex and Ben find themselves stranded in the snow, it’s not just disappointing for them, but for the audience as well. The plane crash interrupts the characters’ projected story lines, which are agreeable, albeit separate. well, put it this way: If the Academy had a category for best simulated stroke while flying a small plane, Bridges would be a shoo-in for the Oscar.
The charter pilot, played by Beau Bridges, turns out to be a breezy, confident older fellow, so breezy he doesn’t bother to register a flight plan, and so old that. Both need to get to Denver, but their commercial flights have been delayed, and so Alex approaches Ben - to this point a stranger - and asks him to go half with her in chartering a small plane. Winslet is Alex, a photojournalist on the way home from a photo shoot, and Elba is Ben, a neurosurgeon traveling across the country to perform an operation. It’s a difficult task, despite two charismatic leads, Idris Elba and Kate Winslet. Ultimately, “The Mountain Between Us” tries to pull the audience’s interest in a relationship direction. But how does the prospect sound of watching fictional characters in the same predicament? OK, well, that might have possibilities, so long as the situation were exciting, not just agonizing and bleak and if the interaction of the characters were so compelling that the movie began to seem more like a story about these particular individuals and not just their situation. Do you want to be stuck in the freezing cold, without much hope of rescue? Probably not. So that’s the achievement of “The Mountain Between Us.” It’s also the problem.
Watching this movie is practically like being there. There’s panic and boredom and a sense of hopelessness, and you can almost feel all of it. “The Mountain Between Us” is the story of a man and woman stranded in the snowy mountains following a plane crash. Facebook Twitter Email This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Kate Winslet, left, and Idris Elba in a scene from "The Mountain Between Us." (Kimberley French/Twentieth Century Fox via AP) Kimberley French/Associated Press
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