Break - Trappola di ghiaccio

The idea of the movie being stolen from very cool movie Frozen 2010, even the hand that got stuck to the cold metal ...

Adam Green should be...gracious someone wanted to make an indirect sequel to his Frozen.

I like the same sub-genre film, Open Water and yes, I totally dug its frightful sequel, and even though this technically isn't also a franchise, it might as well been. 4 peeps are stuck, New Year's Eve, 100 meters off the ground, during a blizzard in a gondola lift. Kinda the same thing, with less shelter, in Adam Green's Frozen about 3 stuck on a ski lift for days.

For some reason, this one struct more of a cord with me since I am deathly afraid of heights and these victims were far less restrained and always on the edge of falling. I can't tell you how many heart attacks I narrowly avoided while watching this.

It's not all praise I had for this, sadly. I'm hoping there was a subtitled version because the dubbed version was so hard to deal with. Their voices were incredibly annoying and fit none of the characters. Almost a mockery of them. I'd rather read my movies than deal with 5th rate dubbing voices.

Also, it's painfully obvious this film had a severely low budget. I can recall three main scenes of great peril and all of them were no-show, cut-aways, the last being in the climax. And this wasn't Jaws; this wasn't because of suspense. It was downright budgetary.

You know how Hollywood loves to remake foreign films by the dozens? America, if you're listening, REMAKE THIS. Heck, a $5 million budget probably could cover all we needed to see.

Despite poor quality and predictability, if you're afraid of heights and love movies that scare you: watch this.

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Final Thoughts: The character who gave me the most anxiety with my Falling Fear, was gorgeous. I know several men in my life that look like him, only all non-white. Of course, that doesn't matter; I'll take any of them. All of them, if given the chance.

Anyways...

The whole movie I was like": Put the bloody hood on!!!!!"'

Many reviewers have compared this to and recommended watching the movie "Frozen". I have seen both, and I think Break is actually a better and much more entertaining than Frozen. When the characters are presented in a life/death situation you can really see how there personalities change as far as who is only look out for themselves , who is ruthless and who is calm and clever, and who will turn on one another. To a degree it is predictable, but I don't think anyone is going to expect a smooth ride on a lift. It was about an hour and twenty minutes and it actually went by quickly.

WHY did they feel it was necessary to dub the voices into English???? It almost reminds me of those BAD Kung-Fu movies from the 1970's. In my opinion,the dubbing KILLED what could have been a pretty OK thrill ride. It was REALLY HARD to get past the HORRIBLE voices,but if you can get past that,the film is worth a watch. Sure...this film TOTALLY RIPPED OFF "Frozen" (which was a FAR BETTER movie) but if you have an hour and a half to kill,this one isn't that bad. It does have some good suspense at times. Overall I'll give it a 5 out of 10. Not GREAT...but not awful either.