I had such low expectations for this ... 3 students get stranded overnight on a ski lift ... frostbite and wolves ensue ... that perhaps all it could so was turn out better than those expectations.
But it was done pretty darned well, and getting stranded on a ski lift used to be one of my recurring nightmares. Perhaps "nightmare" is the wrong word, seeing as most of these negative thoughts were endured in broad daylight, usually when riding a ski lift on my own.
You might wonder how it's possible to get stranded on a ski lift for more than a few minutes, but the movie showed, albeit fictitiously, just how easy it can happen (especially when one considers the airheads operating most ski-lifts).
Despite my net positives about the film, a few things didn't work ...
First of all, how likely is it that 3 students would be on a ski lift with no cell-phone between them?
Second, I'm no David Attenborough, but I wouldn't expect to see one, let alone a whole pack of wolves, in north-eastern USA (not even as far north as Canada).
The same dipstick mentality that causes people to go off on their own in a horror movie, without turning the lights on, prevails here. The girl falls asleep on the lift with one hand un-gloved and not in her pocket, her ski jacket undone and unzipped at the top, and her ski hood not properly wrapped around her face. Surprise, surprise, she wakes up with frost-bite.
Hey, it sounds like I hated it, but in fact it was a departure from the girl trapped in an elevator / parking garage / attic / basement with a deranged guy banging on the door and cackling.
Now that I've spoiled it with the frostbite 'n wolves revelation, see it. If there's one lesson you'll learn, other than "wrap up warm if you're planning on spending the night on a ski lift", it's "don't spend that night with a screamer".
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