If a bear is stalking you and you are in your tent (and you have bear spray with you) why would you close up the tent as it approaches so that if it comes thru the tent and you need to use the bear spray everyone gets a full blast of pepper spray in the enclosed tent? "Lets wait until the bear comes inside our tent before we use the spray, cuz that'll work!". That's what this character does and it just ruins the building suspense. Theres such tension building, and then that happens and you think to yourself "oh come on!!!". They didn't even have the bear spray in hand when they knew the bear was just outside! You wait until the bear tears thru the zippered up tent to look for the bear spray? Instead of blasting it thru the opening as it's coming towards the tent, he zips the tent up so that if the pepper spray is used, everyone is getting it. After using it once the woman drops it and can't find it, while her boyfriend gets dragged outside and destroyed. Who would stay inside while a loved one is being attacked when you have bear spray? Just very hard to believe that people would behave that way (unless they really are that stupid- then they'd both deserve to be eaten). That scene just totally ruined a decent build up until that point.

First off i really wanted to like this film. I liked the story concept and that it was "SUPPOSED" to be based on a true story. which i prefer. The movie did have a decent atmosphere to it but had too many faults that ruined it. Overall all i can really say to summarize this film is,what a waste of potential! The budget did not ruin it, the cinematography did not ruin it, the actors did not ruin it ,the films length did not ruin it, for me it was the writing and straying too far from the actual real life event that totally ruined this film,. If you have nothing else to watch then give it a go just do not expect much.

Missy Peregrym is my new heroine. The fetching Canadian actress is a flat-out bad ass as she struggles against the Ontario wilderness and a human hunting bear in "Backcountry". Loosely based on a true story, Peregrym's character and her boyfriend (Jeff Roop, who also impresses) actually switch circumstances in this gripping interpretation of grisly events by Writer/Director Adam MacDonald. You'll please pardon the pun.

I see quite a lot of comments from folks criticizing this movie for it's stupid characters and how their dumb actions only help get them into trouble - this seems to be the main reason for some of the negative reviews. Umm, have you guys paid attention to real life? People do stupid things all the time. It's not necessarily something that, when it happens in a movie, makes the movie less believable.Yes, the main characters did make some questionable choices but those can be explained pretty easily (Alex's ego explains what he does, and shock explains some of Jenn's actions and inactions). Yup, it's that simple and plenty believable because it happens in real life all the time.I thought this was a pretty good movie, that takes a simple premise and manages to create quite a bit of tension all while feeling pretty realistic.Not spectacular, but a solid outdoors thriller that scores 7/10. Kind of held back by how simple the premise was and that it never tried to be more than this. But like someone said in another review, it's based on a true story and it appears restraint was exercised to limit it to that (more or less).