What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

I read the reviews just after watching the first 15 minutes, and didn't think they were good reviews at the time, because the film had a very good start.Then the rest of the movie sunk in.While I don't agree with this being the worst, or even one of the worst, ever, it was very disappointing after a start that looked like it had potential.We begin with three chief characters, a young couple who are protecting wildlife in Alaska, and their handsome pilot friend. They aren't Grizzly people. They're tagging and watching the cute little animals.It all begins rather well. They are likable, and their friends seem fairly real. After an avalanche changes the status quo, two years pass, and the pilot has lost a lot of his confidence, which made this look like it was going into a fresh direction.Well, then it looks like they brought in a new writer named Joe Cliché. It got very trite after that. You would have to watch it to know how trite it became. Unbelievable, after what looked like a decent beginning.This made the movie more disappointing than everything. I still liked the two leads, because they were worth liking, and that salvaged the movie for at least "treadmill or elliptical" viewing, but it was very corny.And while I liked to see them survive their brushes with death, I would prefer those escapes to be at least partially credible. We cross over all lines of credibility. And that's disappointing.I'm too flabbergasted by the clichés to even begin to mention them. If you scratch the first 15 minutes, it might even look like a comic farce.It's one of those movies in which the people involved probably think they either made something much better, or much worse, than they actually did. When you're involved in a project like this, you don't see the glass as half empty. It's either full or empty. Truth be told, it's less than half full, but still passes for mild entertainment.

An interesting premise--is the pipeline an oil company is building in the mountains above an Alaskan town in danger of causing an avalanche that could destroy the town?--is ruined by a poor script, a limp "romance" between the lead actors and special effects that are shoddy even for a PM Entertainment picture. Stars Thomas Ian Griffith and Caroleen Feeney have no chemistry at all, making their budding "romance" completely unbelievable. C. Thomas Howell is his usual annoying self, but thankfully he isn't in the picture all that long. R. Lee Ermey is a bit more interesting as a crusty oil-company employee, and there is some well-integrated stock footage of some terrifying actual avalanches, but the "climactic" avalanche at the end is marred by patently phony-looking miniatures and inept CGI effects. Some of the aerial shots of the Alaskan tundra and mountains are pretty, but overall the film has a lot more minuses than it does pluses. It might be worth a rental if you want to see what Alaska looks like, but otherwise don't expect much from this picture, because you won't get it.

The movie isn't as bad as many of the voters up till now are saying. The movie is nice to watch, although it isn't a high budget Hollywood movie as STAR WARS 3. So, you may expect that the special effects and avalanches shown are not as real as you could get them , but still they are acceptable. The story makes up for it. Don't watch this movie for it's special effects, but just to see a nice watchable movie which is in general of medium+ quality, taking all things together.The is certain a tension building up while watching the movie, which is also a little predictable, but, again, still acceptable.Generally speaking, the votes on IMDb are low, for many many movies. Why ? I don't know. It's isn't me, I think, having watched 1000+ DVD's. Indeed there are bad made movies, but this one isn't all that bad at all. If you wanted to see a movie , just for fun, with no complicated but reasonable enjoyable plot, this is surely one for rent.I'll give it 7 point, just making a statement it's not a super movie but worth watching.

I have just watched the movie on late night TV. I think the writers and every other person involved in making this movie should have done a little research and found out a few things about Alaska, Juneau and polar bears. In one scene the two main characters are chased by polar bears. Sorry but there are not any that south around Juneau. The caribou also run way more to the north unless they were trying to say in the film that they were able to get all the way to the north part of Alaska in a matter of a few minutes of flying. I think the next time Juneau let someone come in and film about the city they should read the script first. I do agree that the stock footage is much to be desired.