Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Mandy Bohannan This movie has taken a lot of heat for historical inaccuracies and unrealistic circumstances (among other things). Still, it offers a good moral theme and does tell a compelling story without ruining the aforementioned with some sort of predictable, clichéd ending. It's worth a watch if you're the more patient type of viewer who enjoys an intellectual movie experience. Sit back and employ your "film reading" skills with this one. There's lots of symbolism. Though it does fall short on the type of action sequences that less sophisticated, mainstream audiences require these days, it does not disappoint with tension.

droolmouth Now, I can understand that this movie was not supposed to be a documentary, but it is so laughably inaccurate as a history piece that it keeps taking a viewer outside of what could be a good story. I'm just at the part where the sun, shining from overhead, somehow starts a Bible on fire by shining sideways through the lenses of the pioneer woman's plastic lens bifocals. That's a good thing, because this woefully unprepared pioneer woman does not have any survival skills at all, despite being on the Mormon Trail for 230 days now, according to her tally. Even worse, she has been recently left a widow, as marauding unseen Indians apparently beat her husband to death with pillows (he has no marks or blood on his body) before they were apparently called off to another pillow attack, forgetting to check the wagon for supplies, or a woman to kidnap. So she is left to survive on the trail alone, which would be horrifying, if not for the complete implausibility of her even surviving this long. So you figure she will be all right, since even the raccoons in this movie make enough noise in the woods to be easily located, and the magic eyeglasses will probably zap them, gut them and cook them for her. My point is, if you have a story to tell, do the homework necessary to keep the viewer in the story, not laughing at how ridiculous that last scene was. Yes, research is work, but good writing is work. I'm not asking for the moon here, just . . . She wears dance slippers, for Heaven's sake! Why would she be wearing dance slippers?

larsgoff In a day and age when so many movies are filled with gore, gratuitous sex, nudity, and foul language, The Trail is a clean cut and family friendly film pleasantly void of the aforementioned. Many films are centered around self gratifying plots of exploitation and revenge, but this one provides a story of faith and hope that after being tested emerges stronger on the other side.I watched this on Netflix, and what intrigued me was the single female survivalist plot. Early on there were some disturbing things so I wasn't too sure I'd stay with it to the end until I realized it was really more about faith.In this case, disturbing things means things that are difficult to believe to a point that they turn me off of watching. The first of these is the attack scene. It is actually a well done scene, but the problem lies in the fact that while her husband is being killed and the horses stolen she hides in the back of their small wagon. It is unbelievable that the attackers would have no interest at all in the contents of the wagon. That is exactly what we are to believe, however, as they ride away leaving her undiscovered.Two more difficult stretches are the way she is dressed and that she consistently demonstrates a remarkable lack of resourcefulness. Since they were near their destination she decides to bury her husband and keep moving on foot with only the clothes she is wearing and a small wooden locker of essentials. She is clothed in only a thin cotton dress and a pair of flimsy looking slip on shoes. You would think she would at least take her husbands long underwear and socks and a coat, or perhaps even quickly fashion an outer covering from the blanket she buried him in, but she doesn't.The first sign the movie is going to be about her struggle with her faith in the face of her trying circumstances is when she breaks down with her bible in hand at her husbands graveside and cries out to God, "How could you let this happen?" Later, when she is trying to decide what to take and what to leave behind, she cannot fit the bible in the locker and get the lid closed, so she removes it and starts to walk away. But after a few steps she turns back, retrieves it and makes room for it, signifying that she is not ready to abandon her faith and give up on God just yet.Oh, I almost forgot. One other ridiculous scene is when she is walking through the snow and discovers an abandoned piano. By that point she has spent a number of days in subfreezing temperatures with no gloves, however, she precedes to sit down and play. How she was not frostbitten to the point that she could not do that is a mystery.One interesting element to the plot is her discovery of a little native boy. Again, this takes a little effort to suspend your doubts as to why he would be out there all alone, perfectly healthy and unafraid to go with her. But I have a theory about that.Overall the movie is interesting enough to set its difficulties aside and just go with it. In the end it is satisfying to have the tension resolved as she finally reaches the town that was her destination. However, there is some mystery created in this final scene as well. She and the boy are standing at the top of a ridge, and after briefly looking at the town below, she turns once more to say something to him only to discover he has vanished.At first I wasn't sure what to make of that. Was he only a figure of her imagination? Or, was he an angel in disguise sent in answer to her prayer? After a little thought I decided he must have been an angel since a figure of your imagination would not see you before you saw him, eat food with you or reach out and rescue you from drowning. Also, he never once left her side until she had safely arrived at her destination.Overall I thought this was well worth watching. Glad I stuck with it. Highly recommend it, especially if you appreciate wholesome movies with spiritual themes.

your mother I tell you what I saw: 90 minutes of pure depression. I'm giving the no spoilers version so people can be properly warned BEFORE they watch. The movie was ill-conceived and had me asking "what?" and "why did she do that?" throughout. Then there were the camera shots of her looking around. I never did see what she saw. I also disliked how the story was moved along perhaps a dozen times by the following sequence: a closeup of the girl, a slight change in facial expression and then the music starts. Viewers are left guessing as to what she's looking at or thinking or heard, etc, so many times that I just gave up. There was little to no character development and the climax was like a little mosquito bite right at the end of your toe. Too little too late, not mention annoying! I never connected with any character and was a bit confused as to why she didn't just decide differently again and again. I'm so angry right now that I signed up for am IMDb account just to give this a poor review. I would also like to mention that the religious undertones are just out of place and actually helped to misguide a lot of the movie. Where the writer probably intended these mentions of God or religion to be what kept her going, I saw that her blind faith had caused her to neglect certain common sense truths of the world and of survival, which made her decisions nonsensical and actually hurt the story. Goodnight.