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Well I've read the other comments, even checked out Roger Ebert, trying to find the reason for all the praise some people give it, but I can't get it. A story of people fighting with each other, murdering each other, commiting adultery, and worst of all mistreating the dogs that are essential for their survival, among the incessant crunching of snow under boots. This has to be considered a home movie and it leaves a lousy opinion of the Inuit people, which I know can't be this bad. Ebert says it involves somes legend, what that is I don't know.

I saw this movie on the shelf and thought by reading the blurbs on the back that it sounded interesting. I started to watch it and thought the director really knew how to use cinematography. Lighting and arrangement were perfect, color was superb. I was even getting interested in the plot. (This was just the beginning.) Somewhere soon though I realized this was just a piece of self-indulgent crap. I really feel the director is not a really smart person-just like me. But, don't we want smart people like Steven Speilberg, or Spike Lee, or Soderbergh, etc to direct the movies we watch. All the effort Singh put in to this is such a waste of time, his and mine. The worst thing was wasting Jennifer Lopez, and Vince Vaughn, and the other fine actors, as well as me feeling at the end that I didn't care if anybody lived or died in the end, (except for the dog.)

Except for the cinematography, I was truely bored by this movie. Was the director trying to be shocking, or clever, or funny. Nothing was accomplished as far as I can tell. I kept waiting for something clever to occur but it never did. The ending was ridiculous, and much of the gore was overdone. With such a good cast, how could this director make such a mess.