Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Bereamic Awesome Movie

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

bethlperson If you want your weekly dose of women being portrayed as weak, racism towards native Americans, unrealistic perceptions of rage towards God and zero concept of surviving a long trek in the winter this movie is for you. The actress is shown to not think traveling to CA to be wise but doesn't argue with her husband who constantly shuts her down because she needs to "support" him like a good little silent Christian woman. The woman doesn't even try to save her husband who is pointlessly killed by native Americans and they don't even go through their belongings. She aimlessly wanders through the woods like a little girl who has no concept of the situation she is in. Like she brings a huge portion of lace but no blanket. She doesn't bother taking any of her husbands clothes or a coat, gloves, socks or good shoes. And somehow survived a winter in basically a night gown and slippers with heels. She carries a huge wooden suitcase filled with none sense but can't manage other basic physical strength requirements. She also never attempts to make shelters at night or stay out of the elements.

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?

pikespeep This is a small independent film and considering the small budget, it is excellent. The main theme of the film is thought provoking-Does God exist and does He care? The main character of the movie, a young married woman is coerced, by her patriarchal husband and the social dictates of the day, to set out on the Oregon Trail and find their piece of the Garden of Eden. Her husband is a controlling buffoon, insisting that they secretly leave (she is instructed that she not tell her family-maybe so that they will not intervene?) and eventually she acquiesces, as she is a Godly young woman. Her headstrong husband eventually leaves the protection of the wagon train and heads out on his own which ultimately leads to his demise, leaving his ill-equipped wife alone in the wilderness. Yes, there were zippers and materials that didn't exist at the time, but anytime one watches a movie, there are moments when a viewer suspends disbelief. Multiple books about actual crossings of the Oregon Trail recount how as the wagon-hauling oxen, cows and horses died; settlers began throwing out all but absolute essentials. Thus, finding an abandoned upright piano alongside the trail was not unheard of. Before leaving the wagon, Jasmin Jandreau looks through her clothing, pulling out her wedding gown and a pair of lace up ladies boots. The boots are falling apart so she puts them and the gown back in the wagon, deciding to wear what looks to be her wedding shoes. Eventually, she finds a dead man on the trail and takes off his boots so that she can have more appropriate footwear. This film is fairly realistic and also faith affirming.

joycecarrera2002 This is the dullest movie I've ever seen. I kept waiting for some action, some plot, something to keep my interest. What a complete waste of time. The 5 minutes with the stupid music thinking someone was out in the woods and...thennnn.. it was a raccoon???? Really? Worst movie I've ever seen... The fact that this woman can't even light a fire, can't feed herself.,How in heaven's name was she supposed to move out west. You know they had to at least know that in those times unless you were wealthy with servants. So unrealistic. They keep wanting me to write more... I don't have anything else to say about this movie. I want to save anyone from wasting their time on this. Can this be enough text..?