“Walking Out” (** out of four) was a languid thriller about a teenager from the city (Josh Wiggins) who journeys to the outdoors of Montana to hunt for the first time with his gruff and estranged father (Matt Bomer) as they struggle to re-connect until they are stranded and left for dead in the middle of the wilderness and are forced to reconcile in order to survive. Visually crisp cinematography from Todd McMullen and beautiful Montana locations makes this lovely to look at but unfortunately story fails to garner any momentum. Father-son dynamics are too underwritten to evoke any emotion. Bill Pullman has a very minor role in flashbacks. Any one scene in “The Revenant” easily outdoes anything here.

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