Tamahori recovers nicely from the shambles of "Mulholland Falls" with this David Mamet-written boy's-own adventure in the wilds of Canada. After a plane crash, Rupert Murdoch-like billionaire Anthony Hopkins is pitted against the wilds and Alec Baldwin, a fashion photographer and competitor for trophy wife Elle Macpherson's affections. Hopkins' billionaire works with a writer's mind, dredging up anecdotes and untested theories to figure out the next step that may get them out of the forests before starving or being eaten by grizzlies. (Mamet's mogul brings to mind Henry James' dictum, "A writer is someone on whom no fact is ever wasted.") Tamahori and Mamet work simply, quickly tearing away the flimsy layers of social rhetoric and misrepresentation between the men. Baldwin is also a hoot with his playfully freakish delivery of Mamet's trademark cadences. After a while, they're like a couple of privileged brats, bickering like Siskel and Ebert in the wild. The action is reasonably compelling, and the result seldom descends into macho delirium. 122m. Panavision.
--Ray Pride
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