My mother has actually been recommending me to see this movie since it came out. These types of movies aren't usually my thing but since I found out that Jared Padalecki was in it and I am a fan I thought why not give it a try. I found a used copy and snatched it up. I have to say the movie is far from perfect and it seems like the screen writers didn't exactly do their homework (that's what fiction is for I guess). The movie was quite enjoyable. Dennis Quaide reminded me a bit too much of Indiana Jones and there was hardly any reason to have a woman in this movie other than political correctness. My largest complaint is the handling of the Davis character. Yes he is the naive young man of the group and he is hardly the star of this movie but his role is a bit unsettling to me. He is the first of the survivors to die... predictable but her is my overall problem with it. Okay he goes off to relieve himself in the middle of the night, during a storm no less, problem one was he extremely pee shy? How far did he have to walk? In the day they are in a valley of dunes so where was he in relation to the wreckage to have fallen down so far and get lost? I guess later on they show the "bathroom as being a little way off but it was a desert people, one huge litter box and he is a guy. I understand that he could have been pretty jarred by the fall and probably couldn't see well even with the lightning but if he was lost why couldn't he have just hunkered down and waited for morning? Am I missing something here? It seems as though he wasn't trapped in the sand storm till sometime the next morning so i doubt he died overnight. This brings me to my next problem. The survivors clearly waste their energy burying their dead earlier and then they waste more going off to find another lost one so why is it that after the storm was over didn't they even try to find the body? Most likely because they wouldn't have found it because of it being buried but still he couldn't have gotten that far. Which leaves me to my last issues... Why if they created markers for the others did they not for Davis? They knew he had to have been dead. The one guy seemed very heartbroken by his loss but yet they don't even mention him again the rest of the movie. Talk about disposable character. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I am just based but overall I still enjoyed the movie.
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