Linda Holmes

This is basically a slickly made B movie out in the wilderness.

And I think if you kind of give yourself over to how over the top it is, and especially how over the top the Taron Egerton performance is, and the character is, it is diverting.

It's sort of funny in ways that sometimes I am not totally sure are intentional, but

You know, you're out in the woods and you hear birds screaming, essentially.

Birds are going, ha, ha, ha, ha.

And he has this habit of imitating bird screams.

And I don't know if it's supposed to be funny or scary.

Yes, I think that's fair.

And I was expecting more like, you know, Meryl Streep in the River Wild.

Like I was expecting a little more on the run from a scary person, you know.

And there gets to be just some very, there is what I will just refer to as like Chekhov's beef jerky in this movie.

And I couldn't decide when I watched this movie if it should get five stars or negative five stars because I think it totally depends on how seriously you try to take it.

Yeah.

With all that said, Charlize Theron is fun to watch.

She's a very game actor.

I think she really is having a good time with all of the kind of, you know, there's some climbing and there's some running and there's some running through water and there's some fighting and everything.

I think they both definitely commit.

Is this a good movie?

I can't tell.

But I think to a lot of people, it will be a fun movie.