The excellent premise and start and the effort put in this movie deserve respect, although its totally unbelievable situations and twists make it for a missed start. It's not about some factual, archaeological nitpicking, but about plot holes and a completely flawed ending (it would have been much more realistic if the boy didn't make it because of so many dangers and ordeals, not to mention the sudden giving birth by "the wolf").
Any person endowed with common sense, let alone a survivalist or an outdoors person, would cringe at the boy's fall in the canyon and his survival on the rock wall with just a twisted ankle which heals in a few days (by the way, a scavenging vulture finding him on that cliff would have tasted first his softest part, the eyes). Or at his escape by running with a twisted ankle from a pack of wolves. Or at him not slipping on ice, not getting frostbites, not being traced based on smell by chasing wolves or hyenas, or at him killing the cave lion (which was fighting fiercely the wolf) with his first and only arrow, and so on. Sure, people were much tougher back then, but many of them died while confronting all kinds of perils.
Yet this film wants so much to be about coming of age that they show us first a "pansy" or "snowflake" who is actually so tough on the inside. Really? Come on! And the CGI is totally over the top, unrealistic and tiresome.
Any person endowed with common sense, let alone a survivalist or an outdoors person, would cringe at the boy's fall in the canyon and his survival on the rock wall with just a twisted ankle which heals in a few days (by the way, a scavenging vulture finding him on that cliff would have tasted first his softest part, the eyes). Or at his escape by running with a twisted ankle from a pack of wolves. Or at him not slipping on ice, not getting frostbites, not being traced based on smell by chasing wolves or hyenas, or at him killing the cave lion (which was fighting fiercely the wolf) with his first and only arrow, and so on. Sure, people were much tougher back then, but many of them died while confronting all kinds of perils.
Yet this film wants so much to be about coming of age that they show us first a "pansy" or "snowflake" who is actually so tough on the inside. Really? Come on! And the CGI is totally over the top, unrealistic and tiresome.