Dragana Mitrovic
I was recommended this film by a friend. While watching this film I started contemplating my friend's taste, sanity and finally our very friendship. I later realize that I had been trolled.I saw that it had a good rating and good reviews. 11% seem to think this is a 10 star film. Another 11 think it's 9/10, while 23% think it's 8/10.I am not one of those people to say "I wish I could give it minus 10" or to give any work of art zero. I won't give this film 1/10, but 2 is what it really deserves.This film is not a work of art. It's what people call Canuxpolitation. It is an exploitation film on one side and a by-the-numbers checklist-inspired money-grab. People see big budget films with unnecessary violence, nudity, sexuality, action and cameos and see a cash-grab for what it really is.This is exactly that but on a smaller scale. Instead of big names we get cameos. Instead of unnecessary nudity we get unnecessary Canadiana. Instead of a glimpse of a breast, we get a glimpse of the Stanley Cup. Checklist hockey, nature, indie emo music, thinly veiled product placement (the whole adventure was inspired by a Burger King subsidiary called Tim Hourtons).It's insincere, intellectually dishonest, chest-thumping patriotism done by an emo with soft filters, capitalism and commercialism branded as pure love of one's homeland.Let me say this again, it's a movie where a man with cancer is inspired by a Burger King subsidiary to leave his job, partner and family to go on a ridiculous adventure.It's shameless product placement, one step away from Mac and Me.I was surprised this McGowan guy did not shoehorn in references to the invention of insulin or basketball, but I'm guessing he's more of the person to mention Blackberry, IMAX, Molson, VIA Rail or A&W.Product placement film and Tourism Canada advertisement for the age of ad- block.
sharkovski
A Canadian man discovers he has cancer. He buys a motorbike and goes to Tim Hortons to buy a cup of coffee. He rolls up the rim that tells him "Go West" - so he heads West. You start with a cliché and it doesn't stop there.Bike trip. Lots of open road, nature, etc. Postcard as a film. A tourism promo masquerading as a film.Meets a random stranger who also had cancer. What are the chances? Lots of Canada clichés. Meets some kids who ask him (of all people) where's the nearest Canadian Tire.Meets a cowgirl and goes horseback riding. Meets a girl and they have a moment by a campfire, singing French Canadian songs(!!).Random animals. Random forest stuff. He falls asleep and is awoken by a Native American drumming ritual. Token wise old native man? Check.So we've included nature, Quebec (folk song), Natives, nature, sunsets, cowgirls, forests, animals, nature, Tim Hortons, what's left? Swims in a lake. Oh, random German tourist couple tell him that Canada is beautiful.Oh, and he goes on a hockey rink and kisses the Stanley Cup.When people think Canada is an uninhabited country, just one large forest with a micro-population that's just enough to man the Tim Hortons outlets at truck stops, can you blame them? It's a postcard, not a film. It was one Blackberry and a maple syrup donut away from being a total joke.It's fake depth. There was nothing deep about the man or his experience.If someone made a Swedish film about a man who travels Sweden, stops at an IKEA, listens to ABBA, stops somewhere for meatballs, everyone would laugh. But that's exactly what this film is.There's more to Canada than forests. It's sad that Canadians don't want to show the world the real Canada.This is a sorry excuse for a film. It's an Instagram feed, a series of Vines with a loose narrative and a weak soundtrack. Fake depth, shallow emotions, sepia filters, lens flare and photos of sunsets, desperate and needy, asking for likes, shares and retweets.
wandakv
It is a wonderful story about a man who just found out he was dying of cancer. He decides to question his life, and his life choices. He goes on a trip to find adventure but ends up finding himself. He meets different people along the way who help him straighten things out a bit. They help him shatter some long held beliefs, like he can't sing or write. In the end, he realizes that he isn't in love with his fiancé and can't marry her. I was mesmerized throughout the entire film. Joshua Jackson was phenomenal. He proved he is a star and can carry a movie all by himself. I was very disappointed that the film didn't more acclaim than it did.
aditya-dighe
I just saw the movie and in complete aw of it. I felt as if I was in deep meditation state and that effect is still on me.The story is about certain Ben Tyler who discovers that he has a stage 4 cancer and has a slim chance of survival. He decides to go on a road-trip on a newly bought motorbike leaving his soon to be wife Samantha aghast. The story is about how the Ben's ''accidental'' journey shapes up and what are the experiences he gets while on the road.The Canadian landscape shot in the movie is just heavenly and the soft tune of bagpiper in the background really gives you a feeling of cool breeze blowing in the summer.I recommend this movie to one and all. Just lose yourself and enjoy every frame of it because this film is for the keep.
AD
