Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

BoredNow33 So, you tell no one where you are going? You hear a storm is coming and take no shelter in the 6 hours before it comes? How far are you sailing, there were plenty or islands to sail to to wait the storm out. You don't use the boat radio to try to contact anyone? You have no survival experience at all? You almost drown your husband/father running away from bear that isn't chasing you? But later this psycho bear decides to follow the people? And you don't hear the gigantic grizzly bear until it is 2 feet from you. That's a smart bear! There's a ferocious bear on the same island as ship wrecked people, but we'll wait an hour before even leaving to look for them. Let's see, what else... oh, the doctor's office reruns a pregnancy test? Why? Because those are wrong so often, right! Then gives the results to someone other than the patient? Sure. I think though what pisses me off the most is the wife saying now her mother has to wait to be a grandmother when she has been married to a man with a daughter for 2 years. Really? This woman couldn't have accepted and loved his daughter as her granddaughter? Now wonder the daughter can't accept her new stepmother if the stepmother and her mother don't accept the daughter.

darkavenger77 Ugh. I probably should not watch any Lifetime movies where police are shown, since they invariably are shown to be incompetent.The premise here is that Robert (Priestly) and Teresa (Roth) along with daughter/step-daughter Christy go on a boating trip. Robert has written a book called How to Date a Brainy Woman. Despite being on a narrow river, a storm hits and they are in the middle of the ocean! Teresa is the namesake "brainy woman" who can do anything from maintain an SUV to CPR to starting a fire using a cell phone battery. Unfortunately, she can't figure out to use the marine radio on their basically intact boat that is 50 feet away from them, or to remain with the boat for rescue. The requisite females in jeopardy scene takes place about 53 minutes in, and it's not a psycho- it is a bear! Well they are on Bear Island after all. Instead, they place Robert, who has a damaged leg, onto a litter and decide to pull him... somewhere else through the woods.Meanwhile, Teresa's mom, played by an actress too young to be her mom (13 year age gap), tries to report the family missing after they have not been seen for a day and a half. She goes and talks to the "Chief", who is wearing a uniform that says Sheriff's Department- here's a clue for Canadian script writers- in the US, the head of a Sheriff's Department is the Sheriff, not the Chief. The Chief blows her off, and says she needs to wait longer. The Chief is an imbecile. Apparently he has never been sued for negligence. My review title is one of the dumber lines in the movie, spoken by deputy Blondie, who is actually the smartest officer in the movie. It illustrates why no search delay would take place. Mom gets the good news that Teresa is pregnant! We learn the bear is being tracked by Deputy Dumb-Ass and a tracker dude, who tells deputy D-A to fire off a couple of rounds into the air. Why? Things come to a head with about 15 minutes left. Teresa is again in jeopardy from the bear after she has another less than brainy idea to go off for help on her own. Deputy D-A and the tracker see the bear, and feedback from the radio scares it away. The Coast Guard shows up at the crash site, and Christy takes a flaming branch (at least until she gets to a creek) to go back where they started. She and Robert are rescued by the Coast Guard. Teresa hits the trifecta for females in jeopardy with only 7 minutes left. Deputy D-A and the tracker lost the bear, but she found it. Then they find her and the bear, but tracker says not to fire, you might hit her- even though she was not in the line of fire. Just when I thought I was out of goofs, the tracker has the bear attack him and Deputy D-A with rifle in hand does NOTHING. He could have literally held the muzzle of the rifle to the head of the bear and killed it. Apparently the bear prefers blondes, and goes after Teresa. He finally ganks the bear after it again threatens Teresa. I think she has the record for females in jeopardy for a Lifetime movie. Maybe Deputy D-A and the "Chief" can find new jobs after the lawsuit.At the end we see Robert's book was a success, and presumably months later Teresa appears to be very pregnant- a big belly and big boobs- although it is likely a combination of a prosthetic belly, a push-up bra, and high heels- she is now several inches taller than Robert (Roth and Priestly are about the same height). A trivia point here is that Roth in fact gave birth to her first child in March 2010, so she was likely pregnant during filming.Robert's next book should be titled How to Date an Attractive 40-Something Canadian Actress, as it would be a more accurate title than the one here.The movie is a succession of more plot holes than the LMN usual. 3/10 on the regular movie scale (higher=better), 8/10 on the Lifetime movie scale (higher=dumber). It was a 7/10 until the last 6 minutes thanks to Deputy D-A not shooting the bear.

chiluvr1228 Watched this last night on GMC. Other than Theresa praying to God to keep them safe from the storm, I don't know how a previous reviewer could call this a "religious themed movie". It is a nice, little family movie to watch on a Saturday night if nothing else is on the TV.Jason Priestly had very little to do in this movie so if you tuned in to watch him, you will be disappointed.In typical fashion, the family heads out on their boat to go to Bear Island, telling nobody where they were going and obviously not checking the weather reports. Naturally a storm comes up crashing their boat onto the rocks on Bear Island. Robert is injured so spends much of his time in this movie laying on his back. The mother is brave but not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Even after they know there is a bear on the island (hence the name Bear Island I guess) they still go traipsing in the woods alone with numerous bear encounters. They should have stayed with the boat, but like most people set out to find help themselves.The usual schmaltzy type of movie you would find on GMC or The Hallmark Channel. I survived it but wouldn't watch it again. But if you are into family oriented movies this one is safe to watch with the children, unless they are very young as some of the bear scenes might be a little frightening to young kids.BTW there is no nudity or even partial nudity. Not sure where that came from.

rgcustomer I suspect like most people, I got conned into watching this because of Jason Priestly's name.Still cute, but he pretty much phoned in his performance. Jerk. At least his character got a leg infection.But his performance is stellar compared to that of almost everyone else involved in the project, from the writers to the director to the other actors, the cinematographer, the music, and the special effects group.One sure sign of a crap movie is the fact that it's obviously made in Canada, and yet it supposed to be in some US town that nobody can name. Not on the public buildings, not on the police cars, nowhere. But, like every small US town, it does have a Scotiabank. I'm amazed they actually found a Washington license plate. Big budget, eh? I start out assuming that a movie will be a 7, and then I start moving the score up or down from there. This one quickly dropped to 6, which typically are B movies, and then to 5, which are things that are so bad they can hardly even be called movies. I didn't give it a 4 or less, because I don't feel that the filmmakers actually intended to maliciously insult the audience.The only part that wasn't predictable was how awesomely bad the ending was going to be. I don't think I've seen anything more recent than the Gilligan's Island TV series that actually uses sped-up playback to turn a walking bear into a running bear. On Bear Island. Whatever.If you're in Canada, and particularly in BC, you probably helped pay for this piece of junk, via its tax credits or film incentives. Are you having fun yet?