Ryland Grace is a teacher who did not volunteer to be brave. The story people were sold puts him at a far job with the lights going out at home, and then gives him a stranger, Rocky, whose own world is dying and whose gift is that he will work the problem beside you. That friendship is the film's claim to a soul. Competence is honored, which is right. Competence is not a sacrament.

The desk will not narrate a last shot it is not willing to swear to. It will say the measure of the tale: a lonely errand becomes a duty to a particular other person, and the glamour is the smaller part. If the picture keeps that, it belongs with the better adventures. If it keeps only the peril, you have read the better version already.