Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin star in this Lee Tamahori directed thriller. Early on, Anthony Hopkins is a rich know-it-all who is married to a younger wife and has a ton of money. He goes up to Alaska for some reason and they are doing a photo shoot with his wife. They decide to fly out to get an Indian guy for the pictures, and on their way the plane gets hit by birds and crashes in a lake. The two main actors as well as Harold Perrineau survive and soon enough a large Kodiak bear is after them. It kills Harold and now is coming after our two heroes.
This is a fine action adventure survival film. The dialogue is good, written by David Mamet it has a lot of jilted strangeness and you'll hear everyone's character names about 1000 times. Hopkins is Charles, Alec is Bob, and I know that without going to IMDb. There is a nice plotting to the film and it won't weigh you down with dilly-dally. But on the other hand, it's a bit unfocused, parts are predictable, and the whole end part is largely unnecessary.
Bart the bear plays the bear in this, and although Alec Baldwin and others say the bear was really quite docile, the bear is hugely intimidating. Nothing quite like a giant bear staring into your face and roaring. The bear does it's part, the actors do too, and it's a fine movie.
But it's also just that, fine, nothing to write home about, nothing too special. Overall, I'd say an average 2.5
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