BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

danetta cordova This film has beautiful scenes of the Artic, interesting and original characters and good acting. It has a tense, original and scary storyline. (The popular theme of a group of people being picked off one by one in a secluded location makes me think of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" story. I am wondering if that was the 1st use?)Having stated the positive aspects of the film, I have to add the CGI at the end of this movie is right out of a SyFy Channel's "monster movie of the week" lineup (not exactly a compliment). It would have been a great movie if the end had been done differently. As we all know, it scarier to have us imagine what we can't see, rather than do a lackluster job with special effects

GL84 When members of a remote Arctic drilling site begin behaving oddly and show signs they're potentially going insane, the few unaffected workers try to get the others to safety before they come face-to-face with the source of their condition.This one was an absolutely putrid and paltry effort that really offers very, very few areas of worthiness. One of the biggest offenders here is the absolute lack of urgency in trying to contain whatever it is they're facing at the site. This is mainly due to the fact that it's still never explained what's going on beyond just the ice-caps melting, but this is given explanations from a released Indian spirit rampaging and revenging them for the exploitation of it's land to the natural gases released during the exploration of the area, yet even if either of those situations is true, there's absolutely nothing from them to get out of the area at all, which is quite curious overall since there's certainly evidence of something going on and no one's reacting to it. Even moreso, hardly anything happens here to really indicate something's going on when it does occur, leaving this one so poorly paced that it's just so boring most of the time the lack of urgency comes across even more. The finale picks up considerably with a few decent action scenes and even some nice encounters with something, but it's just too little too late.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and off-screen sounds of sex.

bluecrab22 Even if you are a patient film-watcher, this movie will try your patience. It starts off well enough, in a bleak part of Alaska (where it also ends, and where all the so-called "action" takes place). An oil company's exploratory team establishes a base and explores. Weird, inexplicable stuff happens. People have visions...or are they seeing real things? There are consequences. The characters aren't engaging so we don't care much, but we do get teased along for the ride. Are there monsters of some kind? Malevolent forces? "Oh," you think. "That reminds me of "The Shining." "Ah," you sigh. "Aliens." "The Thing, the THING!" you think.More supposedly weird stuff happens and finally, there's an ending of sorts, one which I think will disappoint most viewers. I gave this 3 stars because I like snow-and-ice settings in movies and it rather infuriatingly held my interest just enough that I wanted to see the outcome. I will not be watching it again to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Robert J. Maxwell A slapdash combination of monster movie and environmentalist message movie, it has little to recommend it. Al Gore had been giving his popular presentation on global warming for a year or so and was to win an Academy Award for it in 2006, the same year this was released. It looks like a hastily put-together attempt to cash in on legitimate concerns about oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.A team of half a dozen or so, including an environmental scientist, are exploring the drilling possibilities in Northern Alaska. The team is diverse. There's an Inuit woman, a sexy woman, and various other characters led by the gruff and skeptical Ron Perlman.Look out for this spoiler. I feel compelled to add that warning although there's not much doubt that the seasoned viewer will be able to see the ending coming.One by one, something terrible happens to the team members. The first of them, a man, strips naked and walks off into the unending snow fields, after muttering about "something out there" and positing some kind of sour gas (hydrogen sulfide) seeping out of the ground. If he were correct about the gas, everybody would know about it. It has the smell of rotten eggs and turns nickels black. The next bleeds to death from his nose. By this time even Perlman is irritated and calls for help. Alas, the incoming airplane crashes into the base and burns everything up, including the occupants of the airplane and one or two more team members. The Eskimo woman goes nuts and apparently kills another team member, though I was a little confused by this time.The sexy woman, Connie Britton, who has a magnetic face without being the least conventionally beautiful, seems to be the sole survivor. She gives the best performance too. Perlman lapses into the common habit of delivering each use of the F word with emphasis, as if to underline its supposed shock value.All the way through the film, people have been murmuring about things being out there somewhere. Sometimes they glimpse a strange and inexplicable sight for an instant, too short a time to recognize it.What it is, is a herd of the most unlikely looking computer-generated ghoulish quadruped monsters you've ever seen or imagined. With that, any suspense or witchery fades into the white out. It might have been a much better movie if the writers and director had followed Val Lewton's example and left the monsters unseen -- or possibly imaginary -- instead of literal.But then a lot of possibilities are thrown away. This is a bleak and majestic landscape, filmed in Alaska and Iceland, and absolutely nothing is made of its pictorial potential. Imagine what David Lean would have done with such a location.And maybe this is a personal quirk, but I felt some resentment at the cheap attempt to cash in on a serious ecological problem. The issue is of such importance that it deserves better than this politically correct attempt to make money from it.