Review of To Brave Alaska

Sadly this movie has made it to one of my all time worst movie experiences and not because of the acting or locations - acting was good when you think of the script they had to deal with and the locations were just spectacular - but the script and believability for the drama happening, as well as the research done into the location, was absolutely appalling and laughable. I've been to Alaska in summer - mainly along the coastline and up into the interior mountains into the Yukon - and even then it was freezing a lot of the time. The movie was supposedly filmed in the middle of December - midwinter - but there was no snow along the coastline and not even full snow inland when the ocean should have been teeming with iceberg chunks from when a glacier carves and pockets of snow along the shoreline. Added to that, there were full days of sunlight when in reality there is very limited sunlight in the dead of winter in that part of the world. The character of Denise surviving a winter snowstorm in a tank top, along with falling through fresh snow into a freezing lake and being in it for several minutes as she fights her way from the bottom back to the surface while coming out pink, still yelling and able to move quite freely was absolutely ridiculous. The script having him just standing metres away while she's thrashing around was another unbelievable occurrence. There were far too many instances where the stupidity of the script and continuity for the situation and locations were lacking. I am aware this is a true story and I'm so glad they survived but the creative team should have gone to a lot more trouble to ensure they did their research on the location and the weather for that time of year so that the story was believable instead of farcical. Apart from all that, how two people could go to one of the most remote and coldest locations on earth so ill prepared and with no idea how to survive the forces of nature of that part of the world shows the idiocy of a gungho pair of young Americans who think they are invincible. Sorry, but having been an Assistant Editor I am amazed that this even made it to TV.