DavidC641990 This movie I swear after the guy gets killed. It became so stupid. The guy knew there was a bear. You don't leave a weapon out of reach when you know the bear is nearby. You use the spray as soon as the bear enters the tent not after he starts feasting on your boyfriend. This would have been better if they fought the bear. You take the sleeping bag and shove it in the bears face. When a bear drags your boyfriend out. You run and start stabbing it. You don't wait till it's enjoying your boyfriend. this movie pissed me off so much. No wonder the Revanent was so much better! There's too many scenes that drag on and just the camera just stays focus on the characters faces. You don't continue a hike when your injure your foot. A tour guide that's knows the area should have known about the bear and gave them weapons or should have said if your not back here at a certain day I'm coming to find you guys. Sorry it had a good plot, but the stupidity in the characters just made me hate this movie!

williammbrown Movie had intense moments and fair character development. Special effects were pretty good. Why the writer chose to portray him as a complete dumbass that got himself killed is beyond me. He actually wrestled this bear to save his girlfriend. He actually managed to fight off the bear and carry her back to the kayak. Unfortunately, she died from blood loss along the way. He was a hero, braver than most. The writer made him look like a complete waste of space.Shame on the writer for making this story into a "women rule, men drool" scenario. He did everything he could to save her and got 300+ stitches in the process. I will not be recommending this movie to anyone because of this.

Michael Ledo If you happen to peak at the cover while looking at the title, you know it is about an encounter with a bear, that is not going to be pretty. Alex (Jeff Roop) and his girlfriend Jenn (Missy Peregrym) go camping late in the season on a trail he knew as a kid. He doesn't need a map so guess where this goes. It is just a matter of time before our couple who don't know how to play dead, encounter a bear.Now the question of who survives and who doesn't is the only mystery. I was once told you don't have to be the fastest person when running away from a bear, you just can't be the slowest (pushing someone down and tripping are fouls to consider). Rape whistles are not really effective, but if that is all you got...I'm sure some people who are falling flap their arms too.Of course our couple can't just run into a bear. It has to be introduced slowly to build the tension. The encounter was more like a shot of a circus bear yawning with a dubbed roar then show some blood. It was low budget graphic. Not exciting.It is a fair film. I wish they had created a better couple instead of a boring woman and a sad sack.Guide: F-bomb. No sex. Male butt nudity.

sddavis63 So, yes, this is based - very, very loosely - on a true story. A couple was camping in a remote provincial park in northern Ontario and they were attacked by a predatory black bear. The story in the movie is reversed. In the true story, the woman is killed and the man escapes; in this movie the man is killed and the woman escapes. It would be interesting to know why they reversed that, but whatever the reason they did. I watched this because it was based on a true story, and because every now and then I don't mind watching this kind of movie. But "Backcountry" disappointed me. To me, it seems vastly over-rated.The primary problem I had with this was the relationship between Alex and Jenn (Jeff Roop and Missy Peregrym.) The movie starts with them going on a backwoods camping trip. He wants to go; she doesn't, but she goes along. Alex does a lot of stupid things apparently trying to impress Jenn. "I know my way. I don't need no stinkin' map. I'm not gonna turn back just because we both know there's a wild animal stalking us and I know (even if she doesn't) that it's a bear. I'm not gonna admit that I have no freakin' clue where we are." Why does he feel this need to impress her? It makes it feel as if they haven't been together all that long. Alex seems insecure with Jenn. Sure, he's a landscaper and she's a lawyer. But later on we find out that they must have been together for a while, because this camping trip is Alex's plan for how to propose to her. OK. The relationship just didn't hit home with me, and in all honesty I didn't sense a whole lot of chemistry between Roop and Peregrym.Setting aside my confusion and disinterest about the relationship, there's also the problem that the movie for the most part is dull. Some call it "suspenseful." Seriously? Why? I mean - for the most part, why? Yeah. We know there's a bear around, but we have to go through about half the movie before we actually see it and the actual attack on Alex lasts for about two minutes. It's graphic and bloody - but then it's over. Jenn has to escape and, yeah, the bear is chasing her - but, frankly, we don't see much of the bear chasing her, and when we do the bear's heart didn't really seem to be in the chase. The bear probably would have preferred a nap after snacking on Alex, I suppose. But we had to spend most of the second half of the movie watching Jenn run - and most often we had no real sense if the bear was actually chasing her anyway.Then there was the weird decision to include Brad (Eric Balfour.) Jenn encountered Brad while Alex was looking for wood. Jenn asks Brad (a total stranger she meets in the backcountry) to stay for dinner. And - yeah - Brad's a little weird. You know this movie is about a bear attack, but ... a stranger? In the backcountry? With a knife - which was made clear? There has to be something there, right? Well, no. They have dinner, Brad pees in front of them, has a wee bit of a tense conversation with Alex - then, g'bye. At least, until the very last scene when he's the one who stumbles upon Jenn when she finally makes it out. (Which I somehow knew was going to happen.) I didn't get the point of adding Brad to the story.A truly over-rated movie. (3/10)