Billed as a wilderness survival thriller, “Sugar Mountain” is in fact more of a potboiler involving a romantic triangle and ill-conceived fraud scheme. None of those elements grow very compelling over the course of Aussie director Richard Gray’s Alaska-set feature, which is polished without ever achieving much in the realm of suspense or emotional involvement. The moderate marquee value of Jason Momoa and Cary Elwes (though the former has only a few scenes) should help smooth access to home markets. But in any format there’s unlikely to be great excitement over this middling drama, which opened on 10 U.S. screens (as well as in Toronto) on Dec. 9.
The West brothers have lost their mother to lung cancer, but inherited her business catering to sporty visitors in the titular resort town. (The film was primarily shot in and around Seward, a fishing port and tourist destination in southwestern Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula region.
The West brothers have lost their mother to lung cancer, but inherited her business catering to sporty visitors in the titular resort town. (The film was primarily shot in and around Seward, a fishing port and tourist destination in southwestern Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula region.
- 12/10/2016
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety - Film News
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