Yes, the scenery is beautiful. Yes, the presentation of Inuit culture is interesting. But there isn't more to it, and there are some very frustrating plot elements that just don't "make sense" and are never clarified. Barry Peppers character decides to go to Yellow Knife, which is 200 miles away (after crashing). He gets half way there and then succumbs to mosquitoes and stupidity. He's saved by the lovely Inuit girl. Rather then at that point hauling ass to Yellow knife (a five day walk away), they lallygag around for some undetermined amount of time. Then he hears a plane and immediately comes to the conclusion that they should turn around and walk back to the crashed plane, because they are looking for him there. Never mind that the crashed plane is five days away and the plane that is searching is going to be long gone by then. Why would anyone, let alone an experienced bush pilot/war hero aviator, not just keep going to yellow knife which was five days down the road in the direction that they were going in the first place. This is never really explained and it just rang False and it rang Plot Device. Then, of course, when they get to the crashed plane there is no one there and he goes into a depression about the "coming snow". At this point, it is still daylight, there is no snow, and yellow knife is 10 day walk away. It was just plain frustrating to watch. It made absolutely no sense.
Review of The Snow Walker
