Disney adaptation harnesses Harrison Ford to family-themed vision of Jack London’s ode to wilderness.
Ford became a superstar, of course, playing BFF to a man in an eight-foot hairy suit — a character famously based on Star Wars creator George Lucas's own Alaskan Malamute, Indiana — and he settles in alongside his special effect co-star like an old hand.
"We come and go, don't we — but this is always here," Thornton says to Buck, gesturing across the great expanse. And while the actor brings his default weight, there's a sense that his performance could have gone deeper, been teased out by a more nuanced filmmaker — his man of the wilderness is more in line with his recent, cuddly career lap than his brink-of-madness turn to nature in The Mosquito Coast , still one of Ford's greatest, most unsung performances.
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