I don't know why they were really going to this camp in the first place. Then I don't know why they decided to go out on a boat. I have no idea what it was like for them when the storm came because it didn't show when the storm started. In fact, I didn't see much of a storm at all. It jumps in the middle of things and back out again, repeatedly. I didn't see a fight for life at all because there was too much bouncing around in the timeline. I saw young men clinging to an overturned boat for a few minutes and then back to the beach before they went out on the boat, and back again. I think at one point I started to literally doze off, but I didn't miss much as nothing was happening when I started to doze off and nothing was happening when I came alert. It was sort of like the entirety of this movie going in and out of a poorly shown event. A lot of nothing happening.

The scenes of the boys paddling the canoe tell it all. Despite the fact that the scenery is far from accurately representing Balsam Lake, no "leader" with any knowledge of canoeing and paddling that they would strike out with such an overloaded boat. Thirteen people in a round bottomed canoe, kneeling tall, traversing across the open lake, leaving late in the day with the weather clearly deteriorating, was more than foolish. It was extremely bad judgement. Furthermore, a "camp", where boys are supposed to be learning the arts of the bush, surely their leader would know how to right a canoe to the point that it could be paddled. There are so many questions like this about the movie. Beyond all that, there is so little genuine grit or edge that it becomes naive and boring. What group of boys, in a relatively isolated setting, at this period in history, swim wearing bathing suits? Come on! Where is the swearing, where is the edge, why are their hands manicured and their hair so perfect?

I was looking forward to a Lord Of The Flies / Lost At Sea Combo but unfortunately it is a bit of an exercise in tedium. Poor character development and a lot of very weak characters made the story overly long and rambling for me. I appreciate that this was a true story but sometimes you cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear and there was just not enough to make an entire film or perhaps it was the director who did not know how to fill the scenes with enough good dialogue and characterization so it gets a lowly and rather depressing 3/10 from me!