The Canyon (2009)

Nick (a solid performance by Eion Bailey) and Lori Conway (a winningly spirited portrayal by the pulchritudinous Yvonne Strahovski) are a pair of newlyweds who decide to spend their honeymoon in the Grand Canyon. After their scruffy guide Henry (a colorful and engaging turn by Will Patton) dies from rattlesnake bites, the couple find themselves lost in the middle of nowhere and have to fight for survival.Director Richard Harrah maintains a steady pace throughout, makes the most out of the gorgeous scenery, and vividly captures the hopelessness of the desperate situation. Nelson Cragg's breathtaking widescreen cinematography offers a wealth of stunning visuals. Heitor Pereira's harmonic score does the tuneful trick. Unfortunately, Steve Allrich's pretty blah script has the main characters do little more than squabble and walk around in circles. Worse yet, Nick and Lori become more annoying and less sympathetic as the story unfolds by making one idiotic decision after another that only worsens the severity their already dire ordeal while the threat to their safety from a pack of vicious predatory wolves comes across as quite contrived and implausible. The very frustrating and dissatisfying ending doesn't help matters in the least. A missed opportunity.

This is one of those films that almost lost me due to it's terrible beginning. A crushingly slow B movie was in full play when a change suddenly took place. The undeserving husband adopted a more believable face towards survival and the wife's portrayals of frustration accurately increased. The viewer now gets to see a man and wife trapped in an unforgiving expanse, leading to some fresh turns. Interesting action along with life lessons made what could have been a run away bomb entertaining. A good, reasonably thought out ending really helped. A nice little tricky survival film that may fit your mood when the video idea well runs dry.

This movie was so cheesy I had register to this site just to get this off my chest. Horrible movie. The plot, stuck in the grand canyon. Boring enough right? Well hey you know what the movie 127 hours pulled it off so a boring plot isn't my problem with this movie. Seems like it almost had potential but it was so unrealistic I couldn't take it. The girl gets attacked by wolves;one tackles her to the ground face to face and somehow doesn't bite her in the neck or face? In a following scene she gets attacked again, tackled to the ground, but only gets bit in the leg? Then she stabs the wolf only for it to die instantly? After watching this I wished my girlfriend would suffocate me too. It really trips me out that you people write good reviews for movies like this. Someone please explain to me how people are rating this 7/10?

One of the most stupid films I have (almost) seen. I tried to find an excuse for the director of the film, but there is no one except if he had maybe been abused as a child and for that reason wanted to imply a lot of violence with no film trace at all. If you can watch this film until the end, then you will never consider any film boring. It is a wasted time and money, wasted talent of actors and camera which is beautiful as the Grand Canyon. However, everything else is so stupid as most insulting offense. There is no plot in the film, just two people lost in the wildness - and that is exactly about all. I cannot remember the film I could not watch until the end, but this is the one. Pls, do not forget if you get into watching this movie you will be able to leave the projection, go to business lunch, come back after an hour and you will not need anyone to tell you what happened meanwhile.