Rent The Mountain Between Us (2017)

Disappointing melodrama - The Mountain Between Us review by Alphaville

After a promising plane crash in the mountains this turns into a soapy luvvie-fest between survivors Idris Elba and Kate Winslet. Much of it takes place in constricted dark spaces at night – the plane, a cave, a shack – as they get to know each other. Interestingly, the trailer shows none of this… for good reason.

Idris is more convincing than you’d think in a more dialled-down role than usual, but Kate with an American accent is at her most actorly. Nor does the inane dialogue do them any favours as they spend the film wittering and squabbling endlessly. They’re even stuck with a mutt whose annoying whimpering matches theirs.

As their cloying relationship develops you won’t need a spoiler to tell you where it’s going. There are opportunities for an interesting ending but the screenplay typically bottles it. For Milles & Boon fans only.

Painful - The Mountain Between Us review by AL

What a drag and no chemistry between the leads at all. Ditto what already been said above. No tension and didn't really care if anyone did. Having said all that, it was nice to see Beau Bridges in something, haven't seen him for ages.

Disappointing If You've Read the Book - The Mountain Between Us review by KW

I loved this book and was looking forward to reliving it through the film. I was sorely disappointed. The film uses the story line of the book as a base and misses the fundamental emotive parts that made the book so moving. The film itself was watchable, but I hated the ending!

I liked the dog ! - The Mountain Between Us review by AB

Not such a awful film i thought it was going to be not great either .. Watched until the end as the acting ok but really not very interesting. The dog held my attention all they way through as i thought they may eat him . Very clever at finding dry fire wood not sure we ever saw them light a fire but one always appeared..

Landscape adventure - The Mountain Between Us review by CW

Unlike other reviewers, I really did like this movie. I was glad afterwards to watch the interesting special features explaining how the movie was made. Having not read the book I cannot compare the two but did see that the author worked with the script writer. To me, the chemistry of the 2 actors worked. I found it believable. There were omg moments gasping at the danger they were in trying to survive in the snow, freezing temperatures, running out of food. Yes, the dog looked healthy and frisky for one starving but we would have all been furious if an emaciated dog had been used. I liked that for the most part the actors did their own stunts and the movie was filmed on location. For me his was a most entertaining adventure/ survival story. I don’t know about ending in book but though sentimental, I think the ending worked well.

a mountain between us - The Mountain Between Us review by KM

At first I wasn't at all sure about this film but as the story developed it grew in my favour

Kate Winslet and Idris Elba have really good chemistry and they relationship develops in a very good way.

Set against the snow and ice it's a real tour de force for both actors

Managed to stay awake for the whole film - The Mountain Between Us review by Crocodileroc

Dull. Only plus point was the backdrop Lovely mountain views. It was so unpredictable. We chose this film on strength of idris Elba but the storyline did not give him much scope to shine.