If well-meaning people didn't make stupid choices -- and if cellphones worked everywhere -- way fewer vacation-from-hell thrillers would probably be made.
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The Canyon (2009)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:4
Rotten:11
Average Rating:4.4/10
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Top CriticWatch this... or a giant hole in the ground. Same difference.
11/23/09
Take Open Water, subtract the Caribbean, substitute the Grand Canyon, and you have The Canyon.
11/05/09
A taut, unpredictable and intense thriller. You'll never look at the Grand Canyon the same way again.
10/31/09
The Canyon is undermined by the expectation of a big payoff that never comes.
10/30/09
Top CriticThe best thing about this would-be nature thriller is Will Patton's zesty performance as a cackling, crazed muleskinner, a wily old hand who exits far too soon. There's nothing much to replace him, so we're in for a long 102 minutes.
10/30/09
Top CriticHint to newlyweds: Don't honeymoon in a primeval wilderness populated by diamondback rattlesnakes, aggressive wolves and alcoholic wilderness guides.
10/29/09
Top CriticThe Canyon is so singularly inept it gives you a whole new appreciation for the ept.
10/29/09
Top CriticThe Canyon attests to how a first-rate character actor can elevate a poor film to the ranks of the mediocre.
10/29/09
For a story so bald on narrative incident, The Canyon is sweaty-palms scary.
10/28/09
We've seen much of The Canyon before, but the crisp execution transforms the film into more than just a boilerplate thriller.
10/25/09
Competent execution and respectable performances still can't save this threadbare attempt at a minimalistic Deliverance.
10/23/09
The Canyon could be named for the gaping expanse between its preposterously silly dialogue and sturdy, at times urgent direction.
10/23/09
Top CriticAnother one for the bad-stuff-happens-to-stupid-people file, The Canyon might at least offer the satisfaction of a few squirmy thrills, if it weren’t so insistent on treating its central couple’s plight as the stuff of high tragedy.
10/22/09
Bad things happen to good people in this intermittently effective chiller.
10/22/09
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