I'm rarely (VERY rarely) compelled to turn a film off before its conclusion, but I couldn't make it through this one.

Thrown right into the story with no explanation (and from other reviews I understand that doesn't change for the entirety of the movie) things go from slow to glacial as the gormless protagonist gets jumped in his own home by a hobbled woman in a gas mask then fails to fend her off multiple times.

A stranger eats some cat food, the protagonist eats a spider after failing to open a tin of Shepard's pie... and he paints a wall.

Those are the highlights of the film right there.

It's almost as if they knew how unutterably dull this was and put the painting scenes in as a joke; you are quite literally watching paint dry.

Worst of all as others have mentioned, Sky have this listed as a 4.5 - 5 star!

MOUNTAIN FEVER is yet another cheap and poor independent-feeling production set mostly in a single room with badly staged direction and a lifeless feel to the proceedings. Apparently there was a flu pandemic that destroyed most of the world's population, leaving the survivors the usual feral bunch. Our hero - a goonish English fella who makes me embarrassed to be English - holes up in an alpine cabin but before long finds himself besieged on all sides. It's the recipe for a suspense flick all right, but this one never gets off the ground and you simply don't care about what transpires.

Many reviewers on IMDB could be giving this movie a low rating and review as they don't seem to understand the deeper meaning, the philosophical comment on human life and society and bleakness of reality of the human psyche. When I understand it I will get back to you. I doubt that will be any time soon as I didn't get what it was trying to say either. It did have good points. Two main acting talents were quite good. If it was trying to express bleakness it got that very right.

The plot twist as it was wasof the it came to the male lead ending up having a leg injury like the female character and may have shared the same culprit though that was not clear and more importantly he ended up in cabin where she, possibly, came from and she ended up living in his house though again it was not totally clear if that we she disappeared to.

The overall point or meaning of the film I was not totally sure of and I will not be watching it again to find any deeper insight. The nature of the virus fever was not explained at all. This did not have any issues with me, I would just liked more insight in to the characters and their motives. I did not require a total explanation, just a little to build up plot and raise my empathy to the two leads. I made a joke earlier in my review about the deeper meaning to this movie, it may well have on. I just did not get it. I actually did want to see how the characters story evolved and concluded. There was a conclusion the story, it wasn't left totally open ended. A movie being left totally open ended anyway I don't find a problem in film as long as I have some kind of plot to work with.

I really do hope some reviewers find this movie a better experience than me as there is talent in it and it is well filmed in many ways. Just not enough for me unfortunately.

Oh, and the cat was brilliant in it!