Frozen: Critic Reviews

A nifty little chiller that balances its cold terrain with an unexpectedly warm heart.

It's a stunt film that only just overcomes the challenge it's set itself.

Frozen has its work cut out for it, since the main characters are so annoying you initially pray for an avalanche to just get it over with.

Green also can't maintain the suspension of disbelief necessary as we watch three charmlessly written characters bicker and attempt inane ideas.

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

Adam Green's Frozen explores a tiny idea exhaustively, and I mean exhaustively.

The threesome's constant conversation amid the building unease helps establish them as characters with which the audience can identify.

Tthe script is clunky, the acting strained. Too bad. Underlying the life-and-death thriller are notions about the ways coupledom changes and challenges friendships.

An entertaining, suspense-filled, sometimes wonderfully grotesque little scarefest.

The film moves along, in its paradoxically static way, at a pretty fair clip. I look forward to Green's follow-up.

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.

Where are the flying Saint Bernards when you really need them?

The excess of conversation never succeeds at humor, but it does make us hate the characters, whose speech seems to have just two modes: bickering and whining.

Calm and jaded as I am, I was left so paralyzed with terror by this movie that I chewed a whole pencil in half watching it.

Since the plot literally has nowhere to go, Frozen is basically a waiting game.

The performances and what passes for dialogue -- mostly extended bickering and screaming -- are so lackluster that it's hard to care about the fate of this trio for long.

Taking a dramatic turn from the slasher hilarity of his breakthrough feature Hatchet, writer/director Green plays it straight with a script that has the virtue of simplicity.

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

Frozen delivers enough thrills and gory chills to satisfy the horror film crowd, but is not written, directed or acted well enough to be a first-rate thriller.

These three are so dull the story might have had more spark and tension had Green stranded three strangers aloft on a frozen chairlift.

This chilly thriller from Adam Green (Hatchet) starts with a nifty premise and goes nowhere from there.

Adam Green's fun 2006 horror film Hatchet revelled in the art of self-aware pastiche, but it is in his second major work that he has found a legitimately great concept out of which to wring more nuanced thrills.

The parts of the film that work are flat-out fantastic. There just aren't enough of them.

Like Jack London's 'To Build a Fire,' this is an exercise in extracting suspense from the circumstances of a harsh wintry environment and a bad situation rather than imposing danger in the form of an outside (and potentially vanquishable) foe.