This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

In the beginning I was turned of by some of the acting, but not all of the actors were terrible. There were some parts where one had to ask why these ladies seemed so unprepared to go on a hike. I mean, they looked more like they were getting ready to go to a pub rather than the wilderness and the great outdoors. I did however live the little twist that they had with the a-hole womanizer. You thought for a second on who he might really be, but of course he wasn't. There was one female who was at the ready at all times, and that was the military girl. The rest of them were way out of their element. When the three "gentlemen" came into the mix, you could smell the sexual tension from a mile away. But, it worked and was actually fun to watch it all play out. Towards the end of the movie, you could tell the difference in the psychology of the direction the male actors were going. It was like you flipped a switch, and their inner demons escaped from inside an inner mental box.

Five women go on a hiking weekend that turns into a fight for survival. In many ways this film pulls parts from both The Descent and Eden Lake, two other recent British films that concentrate on vacations going wrong. Right from the off you realise this isn't going to be anywhere near the level of those superior films. The five female lead characters are much of a muchness and no-one stands out. The quality of the acting from all five is very moderate at best and at times very poor. The fact that Tamer Hassan a very moderate actor at best, is at the higher end of the acting ability spectrum on show here tells you all you need to know.By far the best and most natural acting on show comes from a cameo at the end from Shauna Macdonald. What a shame they couldn't have incorporated her into the script earlier but maybe budget wouldn't allow this. The script is disappointing and the ridiculous scenario's that occur stretch any small amount of credibility created early on. I know it's a horror film and doesn't need to be realistic but the lazy set up really does let the film down. For much of the film I was going to rate it much lower than a 6 however to be fair the last third of the film did pick up very well and hold the attention. In my view the fate of many films is sealed by the ending and this is where The Hike scored highly in my opinion. I really enjoyed the ending which wasn't a generic cop out and left me satisfied that I hadn't wasted my time watching the previous 90 minutes. This is a low budget film and it shows in many places but it did in parts entertain me. I appreciate that many people will find it junk and in many ways they are right. However if you expect little and are willing to forgive flaws then there is enough here for the avid horror fan to enjoy.

I have seen some great survival horror films over the last few years, Resurrection County, Frontiers, Rogue River, I spit on your grave ( 2010 ) and Eden Lake to name a few. This one is the low point of this horror sub-genre. The acting and locations were good, it was just nothing scary about our antagonists. No back story, no character development and no suspense to speak of. Dull and boring that seemed longer then its 82 minute running time. I didn't buy into any of this and the ending is sooooo transparent and you can feel it coming from a mile away. If your lucky stay miles away from this film. Garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only thing i like this movie was, there were some beautiful scenes captured.However, there is some problem, incomplete scene about how the man was captured. A major problem about the movie is, the plot doesn't make any sense. It is out of human basic survival instinct. When being threatened to death and having so many chances to kill the man, the woman chose to run away, and her background was a soldier. That's just nonsense.Another nonsense part is since David likes Charlie, why would he want her die and leave the body in the tent without taking any care of.