Into the Forest

THE GIST: An unknown event causes a massive, countrywide power outage that seems to have no end in sight. Two sisters and their father happen to be in their remote mountain house, which is probably a safer place to be, given the circumstances, since they'll have to learn to survive off the land and what nature provides.

Into the Forest has a very interesting end-of-the-world premise, and is surely suspenseful and thoroughly watchable, but the script seems to stubbornly want to present these two young women as both very smart and utterly naïve.

One is studying for her SATs and the other one wants to be a dancer, but when the power goes out, rather than acknowledge the gravity of the situation and try to adapt to their new reality, they continue studying and practicing dance routines as if such an outage was something of little consequence.

And they go on like this for quite a long time. Not even a serious accident seems enough to shake them out of their privileged existences, which kind of makes you wonder how smart they really are.

Either way, both Elliot Page and Evan Rachel Wood do a good job, professionally handling the material at hand.

THE BOTTOM LINE: I would recommend this movie only as a curiosity really, because the girls' actions and decisions can become pretty frustrating after a while. You just wanna slap some sense into them!

Grade: 6.5