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A waste of 90 minutes of my life

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Blistering performances.

Even if I wasn't stranded on a ski lift, in the dead of winter if you are outside more than ten minutes you ZIP YOUR COAT UP THE WHOLE WAY! Put your ungloved hand in your pocket you moron. That drove me the craziest the whole time. Secondly, she had a lighter in her pocket the whole time...just wanted to point that out, in case anyone wanted to be warm for a minute. The horrible leg breaking scene...and I don't mean horrible like it looked painful I mean horrible like it looked fake AF. Especially once he was sitting in the snow. And lastly...the wolves. So, let's get this straight, there's ravenous packs of wolves that live on a busy ski mountain (oh wait it's only open on weekends, damn they must make a lot of money) so the wolves must then know when it's Sunday and they are allowed to come out and attack people. Because, you know that is such a frequent behavior.

I will say that movies are meant to entertain and in this respect we can't always expect the most realistic of situations to play out. However, this film is just plain stupid!.Let's say for one moment 3 snowboarders/Skiers get stuck on a chair lift and it's really high up. Could the Director have not treated the audience with a semblance of intelligence? I mean one guy decides just to jump down to be the hero without using any tools at his disposal. Doesn't try and tie a jacket or 2 to lower himself down. No of course not just jumps down and breaks both legs lol. If he had done this and then is unlucky and breaks his leg on a rock then it would have added a lot more credibility.Before we even get to this stage, the movie was made in 2010 yet not one of them had a mobile phone to make a call. That's the most unbelievable part of this whole movie. I mean they could have got round this with the phones not having signal due to the bad weather. Still unreal but at least would have been better.Big CAT drives below them and they throw down a few bits of clothing and a pole instead of a snowboard to catch the drivers attention. I mean really?Wolves manage to eat the two male characters. Yet when the female faces the wolves they just walk away because they had just had dinner. LOL Ridiculous. These wolves must only come and eat people when the ski resort closes then. Film could have done without the wolves all together. May aswel had gone for a deadly snowman. Film was so stupid May aswell had gone whole hog, at least then people would have expected stupidity.The resort closes for 5 days in peak season just when the protagonists get stuck. Suuuuuuuure!We have no one zipping up their jackets. We have people falling asleep with bare hands touching metal. Why not just go one better and stick your tongue to the metal bar.I reckon they could have made a really good movie here if they had thought about it a little more. I'm sure the audience would have appreciated it.Instead we get absolute nonsense which is so stupid it insults everyones intelligence. AVOID

I absolutely love movies that make me unsettled and queasy; movies that from time to time even force me to close my eyes because I just can't take it anymore. Kudos to "Frozen." It managed to pull all that off brilliantly. Not long ago I had watched "247 Degrees Fahrenheit," and in the course of reading reviews of that movie came across some references to this one, and had to watch it. "247 Degrees Fahrenheit" was about a group of friends trapped in a sauna and dying from the heat. "Frozen" presents the opposite scenario. In this, a group of three friends go ski-ing for the day and are accidentally stranded on the ski lift after the ski hill closes down. They're high above the ground, it's bitterly cold, it's totally dark because the lights have been shut off, there's a snowstorm starting and the hill is going to be closed for a week. At first they think someone will realize what's happened and they'll be quickly rescued, but soon reality sets in. They're trapped. Possibly for days. They could easily die. How can they save themselves?It's actually a pretty simple movie. Most of it is set in the ski lift chair. "Minimalistic" suits this. Low budget as well. But the story works, the plight is real. You empathize with these people; you almost suffer with them. Dan (Kevin Zegers) decides that the only thing that could save them is for him to risk jumping off the chair and hopefully being able to go for help. He tries. He breaks his legs horribly. It's graphic. It's quease inducing. We hear howling. There's obviously a pack of wolves nearby. Dan is injured and bloodied and completely helpless. The wolves close in and attack. It's quease inducing. Dan's friend Joe (Shawn Ashmore) tries next. He'll try to pull himself hand over hand along the ski lift cable to a nearby tower with a ladder. The cable is sharp. His hands are bloodied. He tries, he gives up, he tries again. He's way up high clinging to a cable. It's quease inducing. He makes it to the tower and comes down - and encounters the wolves. His fate is a mystery for a while. Finally there's Parker (Emma Bell) left on the chair all alone. She's terrified and suffering badly from frost bite. In some ways the saddest parts of the movie are when Parker talks about her puppy that she left at home who's going to starve waiting for her to come home to feed him, and then when she just can't "hold it" anymore and she pees her pants. She's humiliated, and you feel for her. You really do. The chair is starting to slip off the cable - which works to her advantage. It gets low enough that she can jump. She alone manages to escape - coming across Joe's body, half eaten by the wolves, along the way.At times this is terrifying. At times this is sad. You get drawn into the plight of the characters. I'm totally unfamiliar with Zegers, Ashmore and Bell but I thought they did a superb job. I'm giving this a 10 - not because I think it's Oscar-worthy or anything like that (or even one of the best movies ever made.) I'm giving it a 10 because it brought forth some very raw feelings and reactions from me, in a way that movies very rarely are able to do. And, after watching this, I am convinced that I will never, ever take up ski-ing. Never.

The third-to-last group down the slope tells security there's a group of three still coming. The wrong group of three came, so the lift closed. The guy didn't keep in mind they didn't mention what they look like/what they're wearing. Especially in a situation like this, don't ASSUME. And don't just take Joe Shmoe's word for it. Always make sure everyone's accounted for.