Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Tracy Winters This movie stinks.Donald Sutherland can't get through one day without screwing up and taking somebody with him when he crashes and burns. Lots of celebrities sprinkle the cast. This film seems to be made up of many other films like Death Ship and The Thing. A slow-moving script doesn't help.Ultimately episodic with boring digressions into the personal lives of some of the scientists. You start to wish a meteor would land right on top of the research station -- or maybe a ship in the icy waters would get attacked by a giant octopus wearing a parka... that would be cool.Another movie where the film-makers had too much faith in their lousy script.

clanciai As usual with Alistair McLean, it's a great story, but this time they fooled around with it a little too much, overdoing it into almost a parody, drowning the thriller in deafening music and exaggerated technical effects, waltzing around with snow scooters in wild goose chases, and so on. Everything is good until the stormy night, when everything collapses and relapses into chronic confusion, and on top of it all the actors can't speak clearly. Donald Sutherland is clear enough and sticks to his role all the way, Vanessa Redgrave is fair enough also in her acting as always, Richard Widmark also excels in honesty as usual, and who already in 1979 grapples with the problem of climate change and global warming, Christopher Lee is the greatest actor here though, playing an honest Russian for a change, Lloyd Bridges is queer enough, but in the resulting confusion of the sabotages coming in tautologies, it's not quite clear who fired on whom and who caused all those fires and ruined the generator, the radio mast, mixed up the books and so on. Many seem to have messed with many things, and what about poor Larsen? Was his body ever found? Who killed him and why? What did he try to communicate? Sorry, there is too much confusion in this hullabaloo of intrigues and counter-intrigues.Still it's worth seeing, if not for anything else then at least for the story and Donald's discovery of his father. Here is the real mystery and central plot of the story – the mysterious fate of the last German u-boat captain, and the scene revealing the u-boat is a thriller in itself you'll always remember.

fung0 Alistair MacLean was a writer of limited ability. His plots are repetitive, his characters pure cardboard. What he did well was choose great settings, and keep things moving at a brisk pace. Bear Island captures that essence perfectly, even if it may take some liberties with the details.I've always particularly liked MacLean's Arctic novels (especially Night Without End, for my money his best work). This movie version of Bear Island captures that setting perfectly, being shot essentially on location in the actual Arctic. Forget the tacky sets of Ice Station Zebra... Bear Island makes you FEEL the cold and the isolation. Another reviewer complained about the hoods obscuring the actors' faces. I'm sure that's because the actors were trying hard not to FREEZE their faces. It's a realistic detail that's lacking in most set-bound movies set in the far North, that have characters breezing around with suicidal disregard for the cold.The acting is exactly appropriate to the story. Sutherland is still in fine leading-man form, and the supporting cast is well chosen. The story is convoluted and preposterous, as befits a MacLean outing, but tackled with earnestness that makes it work.Until I caught up with it recently, I hadn't even known this film existed. Now, it's one of my favorite MacLean adaptations. It's a more intimate affair than Where Eagles Dare or the Guns of Navarone, but vastly superior to hollow Hollywood spectaculars like Ice Station Zebra. I'd put it on a par with Breakheart Pass: a fast-paced diversion, staffed by likable stars, and enhanced by a nice feeling of time and place.

ianlouisiana "Five U.S.A." butchered "Bear Island" yesterday afternoon,the net result being not worth watching.A significant proportion was out of focus,the sound unintelligible,the effect of the flickering visuals almost stroboscopic.From the wreckage it might hardly be fair to criticise what may well have been a masterpiece of cinema for all I know although the bits I did see don't give that theory a great deal of credence. Certainly the acting didn't seem to be up to much,Mr Donald Sutherland apparently having his dialogue written by Harold Pinter,the others by the balloon filler for the old wartime action comics,being of the "Gott in Himmel,Fritz",variety. There is an early McGuffin about climate change but basically "Bear Island" is yet another 'Search for Nazi Gold',a plot that even 30 years ago was sprouting whiskers. Mr Lloyd Bridges tries hard to keep a straight face and Mr Sutherland dives into water cold enough to freeze a polar bear's chuff and comes out wisecracking. Some guy gets barbecued by a Verey Pistol and is blown clear out of a ship's bridge,floating away on his back like a holiday maker at Clacton. If these excerpts,gleaned from a confusing melange of sounds and images are anything to go by I probably wouldn't have much liked "Bear Island" anyway,but it would have been nice if "Five U.S.A." had given me the opportunity.