Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on August 2010

Three generic and charmlessly written college kids find themselves stranded on a ski lift, at night, too high to jump, with the resort closed for the next five days. The film undoubtedly sees itself as a winter version of the successful Open Water, but a ski lift is not the open sea, primal-terror wise, and the actors can’t maintain interest, let alone suspense. Watching these three devise inane ways to escape is not unlike watching grass grow, except grass wouldn’t be annoying you with preppie bickering (though the hungry wolves do liven things up a bit). My watch had apparently frozen.