Two siblings, along with the driver of their getaway car, go through the middle of nowhere (somewhere in Michigan, I guess) on snow covered country roads. The idea is to get to Canada after having pulled off a heist. They are dressed to the nines and one of the siblings, Liza, is wearing a skimpy dress, counting money on the backseat. Then, the car hits a deer and skitters off the road, turning over and landing upside down, killing the driver. Liza and her brother Addison make it out without a scratch.
A patrol car happens by and calls in the accident. As Addison gets out of the car he apologizes to the cop before shooting him. The siblings flee the scene further into nowhere and the oncoming heavy snow. To better their chances of getting away, they split up and try to make it to Canada, separately.
Addison walks off into the woods and runs into a native American, who has difficulties re-starting his snow mobile. The two men start fighting which costs Addison a pinky and leaves the other man dead. He moves on from one chance encounter to the next, picking up vehicles along the way and leaving a trail of bodies for the cops, who have by now found the body of the patrol man, to follow.
Liza gets picked up by Jay, who is on the way to see his parents in a remote farm house after just getting out of jail. Barely freed for a few hours, he accidentally kills his former boxing coach and thinks the road blocks he sees set up are there for him (I assume). As he drives away from one, he finds Liza who, despite having changed into something more appropriate, stands by the road freezing terribly. In the car, she finds out where Jay is headed and after spending the night with him at a motel, she calls her brother and leaves a message with the location of the farm house of Jay's parents.
Addison, wounded by now, makes it there first and takes Jay's parents hostage and together they sit down for Thanksgiving dinner. When Jay arrives he has Liza in tow and at first the two siblings do not acknowledge each other but soon enough old wounds break open. Liza told Jay earlier that her father, the devil, was killed right in front of her and her brother took care of her ever since. The relationship between the two siblings appears to a little too close for comfort and it also seems that Addison, who was the one to kill their father, took over the role of would-be devil in his sister's life.
At this point, a police woman comes by, looking for Jay because of a call she got from Detroit. She also ends up a 'guest' at the dinner table. Ultimately, law enforcement catches up with Addison and the distraction caused by the local sheriff - the police woman's father - gives Jay the chance to overwhelm Addison (Jay is, after all, a former champion boxer and silver medalist at the Beijing Olympics). In the end, it is Liza who shoot Addison to end his torment of the family and free herself.
I thought the police woman with the daddy issues was just one complicated family relationship too many. Otherwise, quite interesting.
6/10
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