Fresh and Exciting

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Writing is bad the acting is just as bad, They should have just made it about the scenery of Alaska. Don't waste your time on this garbage.

I don't quite understand how this movie is incurring such poor ratings since it is one of the more original films I've seen in some time.Special effects? Forget it. This is pure wilderness territory in panoramic play. Wild Alaska at its finest in natural scenery, music (native Alaskans Black Railroad Company with bluegrass twang and a rugged, rustic feel), with "real" people in the background throughout.I could not predict anything that would happen in this film even though it *appeared* mundanely spelled out from the outset. Nothing is at it seems in 'Sugar Mountain'; for that, my interest was sustained and entangled with the very good acting, plot twists, and disbelief throughout.This movie felt very Indie-"ish" to me. I appreciated the stripped down rawness and feeling of realness. If you're looking for glitz, elite Hollywood garbage, again forget it. This is deeper than that.

Everything was way too obvious in this film and most of it was predictable because the movie already hinted at it. The characters are confusing in their action and a lot of things are brought up but never pushed thru or simply get ignored. It's basically a love triangle story which was already the first most obvious about this and which no one in the movie itself seem to notice. You therefor already know that these relations are twisted so when they start a hoax to sell a story of one of them gone missing in the mountains it is almost a given that things will spiral out of control.The sort of incest reveal at the end did not have much impact and came really to little to late after the message of this movie that everybody lies. In the end you know just as much as the beginning of this movie and there is not much of a resolution or a reward for wasting more then a 100 minutes of my life.I also checked this out for Jason Mamoas acting chops and right now I'm starting to think I'm not gonna like aqua man.The writing on this was lazy and the story so lame they stretched it a lot with long searches for the missing person and to much dialogue what takes away from the one or two plots that there are.At the end the girl gets away best and her white middle-aged cop dad (who also drinks and cheats on his wife) is of the worst because he dies. Were did I hear this story before ? Now I remember it was in every movie made this year.The 2 rating was for the different scenery and the cinematography which gets wasted in this uninspiring story or script.It's not worthy for your time or money. Your better of watching anything else,really.

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.