Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

shinsrevenge This movie was quite a surprise. Even the title. A mountain of "sugar", I thought. Must be a movie about drugs. Figures that they were talking about an actual, snow-covered mountain called Sugar. Well, it's white and you can get high up. Close enough.Two teenagers have a cunning plan: Pretend that one of them gets lost in the mountain, start a rescrue mission and everything and then sell the story to the highest bidder. Easy plan, well organized. Almost no lose ends. Except for the fact that everything everyone ever said and did was a lie or false assumption.Sugar mountain keeps surprising you with twists and turns, not all of them being plausible, but entertaining and interesting nonetheless. It ends kind of abruptly, leaving the final conclusion and decision to the viewer. So you find yourself thinking about it and about all the messed up stuff you learned about the motives and backgrounds.The overall acting is good and there's even some character development as you see people grow or change through their experiences.

Tony Heck "He knows the mountains too well no one would believe he got lost. You'd have to do it." Miles (Roy) and Liam (Coffey) are brothers who have been struggling. Looking for ways to make money they decide to fake a disappearance and sell their story. Miles, heads up a mountain while Liam reports him missing. What seems like a quick and easy way to make money soon changes the lives of everyone involved. This is a movie that had such promise. The idea was interesting and had me looking forward to seeing it. What the movie became though was a jumbled mess of plot lines that came from everywhere and made it hard to not only get into but keep from laughing at. This fake disappearance movie contained a hardened un-trusting cop, blackmail, an angry collection thug, false accusations, constantly changing sides and stories, hidden secrets and more family drama than a soap opera. The movie was just too over the place and distracted from the main focus of the movie, but then again it was hard to tell what the main focus was. Overall, a jumbled mess that reminded me of Aloha in the way that there were just too many story lines that didn't seem to fit with each other. That aspect really really hurt what could have been an interesting and tense movie. I give this a C+.

ActingoverAction31 I had never heard of this film but stumbled onto it here on IMDb somehow and the plot description along with two of the seven reviews was enough for me to want to see it. The story isn't completely original but it's hard to find anything that is original these days. It is a story that is well written, while the casting is perfect helping make the acting more believable. It does get pretty bumpy towards the end, but it works! My wife and I were tuned into this for the duration. We didn't find any slow points, the cinematography was nice, the pace of the film was just what it needed to be. My only knock would be that more scenery shots would have been welcomed, perhaps during the search scenes. Glad we found this one as there are far too many films these days that are banking on CGI and big names rather than a good story and fine acting.

Kris McCarthy Getting 5 rating due to the storyline. Well written and thought out. A scam of selling a story to the press of being lost in the mountains of Alaska. We have all thought at one time or another how to make a quick buck on some idiot thing in the news. Sugar Mountain was a great take on that idea. But of course, when you have an idiot idea thought up by desperate idiots, you have a grand idiot adventure. Cary Elwes is not the Westley we know and loved from Princess Bride, playing the sheriff in backwater Alaska he has more Kiss the Girls crazy than anything. Well played and introducing all the twists to the story. But the Oscar for worst actor on the planet goes to none other than the future Aquaman, Jason Momoa. If you really want to learn the craft of how to be a bad actor, study the science of The Momoa. Just wow. He had one great role and that was Game of Thrones. His other roles have been barely OK, but Sugar Mountain really hit the mark on being plain bad. All in all an interesting little film set in the breathtaking Alaskan wilderness. Well worth the watch. Especially for the train wreck performance of Mr. Momoa.