Don MacAlpine

Good acting and a reasonable plot disappears in the lack of credibility. Sorry, Canadian Hollywood thinks that it can lie to the public and call it 'entertainment'. This series has its moments BUT, sorry, milk does not come from bottles in its origins. As soon as this series claimed to be based in the Canadian Northwest Territories (on a flight from someplace in (Alaska?) to "Inuvik", it needed to know, and represent, the geography the story is supposedly based on.... Alaska may have mountains and lakes similar to BC BUT any 'flight line' towards Canada's more northern city would encounter taiga, or stunted trees and low rocks, in most of its flight... Definitely NOT B.C.'s Cedar rain forests. When a movie is NOT true to the locale and realities of our world, it loses credibility with me. That led to disbelief about the series of traumatic events which unfolded. Art has its limitations. Not knowing, or caring, about the real world, is not art, unless one is writing science fiction... Was this what this drama was supposed to be? I think not and this fact destroys any merit this series had as 'art'. It has good camera work and acting but that disappears in a quagmire of disbelief...

The initial rating at Netflix, a '2-star', made us tentative about watching this movie. While I can agree that parts of this movie are disjointed, I also suggest that a '2-rating' comes because most people are sheeple who do not really care about the depth of corruption which leads to Meryl Streep's believable portrayal of a character who is abused by a system that is all about greed and nothing about responsible behaviour towards others. The movie enlightens as it provides moments of comedic relief at the absurdity of what too many allow via our silence. A good movie for those who want to be challenged about our individual responsibilities when it comes to modern measures of 'morality'. In the end, a fun stab at the very elitists who serve the community of formal reviewers who will see it as being a threat to their want for movies to 'just entertain us!'

A surprisingly entertaining movie with a simple storyline that is complicated by those normal human complications of family, friends and youthy ideals about life. Actors appear in genres not normal to their history. Bruce Willis and Bill Murray become charmingly different in their roles. The film is beautifully made, terrific scenery and scenes... some might consider it 'slow-paced' I would call it suitably paced for the story it tells. Worth the watch