Frozen (2010)

Adam Green's taut, toe-curling survival thriller is better than it should be: the concept and the characters' behaviour are mostly plausible, the script is dark and funny, the acting is adequate, and the wildlife scenes are convincing.

There's not enough here for 90 minutes.

Frozen is good for five minutes of "What would you do if?" games. Then it's just stiff as a board.

A stuck chairlift just doesn't exert the same primal terror as a roiling sea, and to make up the difference, Green would need a better cast and sharper dialogue than he has here.

In those moments when we (and the characters) are paralyzed between bad decisions, we're as stiff with tension as an icicle.

Another date movie-horror flick designed to scare tentative couples into each other's arms.

Overall, it's a one note premise, where the characters, stuck up on a lift, have nowhere to go and quite fittingly the movie in turn, goes nowhere.

You'll definitely recall this freezing flick the next time you go skiing. For the next 15 years or so.

Reinterpretation of The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairytale as an animated, female empowerment musical.

Energy thaws kid-friendly Frozen

Green avoids Hatchet's corny clichés and totally redeems himself with a harrowing portrait of humans at the mercy of the great outdoors.

Characters possess serious lack of thinking ability and survival skills. Even when it comes to stuff like zipping up their coats all the way.