I don't watch much European movies, but wow, how different it was from American disaster/rescue movie.
This movie clocked in at one hour and 38 minutes because it explained nothing.
Why did he crash?
How long was he out there?
Was nobody looking for him?
American movies would show a whole back story of the main character, his family and friends worried about him, and a bunch of scenes of the search and rescue crew. Not in this movie. It dropped us smack dead in the Arctic, how he survived with no heat source and ate only sashimi. He had lost several toes from frost bite. Did the movie assume me, a stupid American audience, understand how long it would take to lose a toe from frost bite?
At the end; when he passed out from the cold, a helicopter arrived. It ended right there. It implied he was rescued, but it didn't explicit say he survived. He could've already been dead. Again, different from the typical American happy ending.
I was getting colder and colder watching this movie. I couldn't breathe. At one point I couldn't watch when he was trying to break his trapped leg to get out. This was so painful to watch.