My wife and I are big animal movie fans and we were looking forward to this one for a long time, but we were surprisingly disappointed today. We love movies that show the friendship between humans and animals, but this movie didn't have any "feels" or "excitement". It was like a collection of shallow events that were strung together. It was predictable and boring. We loved "Marley and ME", " Shiloh", and many, many others, but this one will not be on our best movie list. We really didn't care what happened. It started off very slow and it seemed that the write and director had no idea about survival Technics or about animal behavour. It would have been good if there were some suspenseful parts, but the only two were in the trailer. As for the relationship with the Wolf and the boy.... it really didn't make you feel all warm and gushy inside. No "feels", No "tears", no "excitement", No "suspense", no educational, historical or survival bits....NOTHING! We give it 3/10 and that is being generous. We can't understand why the main critics seem to like it.