High Ice

While this movie is wonderful on its own, nothing can compare to the performance of Zack Lewis, the 5 year old boy who played Glenco MacDonald. His performance stunned me and inspired me to perform myself. The fact that he is not listed in the IMDB credits is a crime. Watch this movie and look closely for little Zack...you'll have to look closely, but I promise that it's worth it! Wherever you are Zack, thank you for this moving and timeless performance.

It was a pretty good way to while away 2 hours on the tube, especially after having participated a little in its production: the UH-1 Iroquois helo which crashed in the mountains was assembled in, staged at & delivered from Green Valley Airport in Granite Falls, WA where I lived...not very far from michellegreen_6, another reviewer here. I got to meet none of the talent but Dad and I did get to help a bit with assembly. And then off it went, to its fiery theatrical doom, which I witnessed several months later on TV. It was the biggest thrill this town got since they filmed "Joyride" there in '76-'77. It was the talk of the town the day after the movie showed. Mostly good reviews, very few negative ones.

I picked this very boring movie up for less than a buck on VHS . . . and I paid too much for it!! David Janssen, Tony Musante & Dorian Harewood are all decent actors -- and they try very hard here -- but this made-for-TV film is just excruciating to watch. The rest of the cast is horrible -- especially the "actors" who get stranded on the mountain -- and half the footage is helicopters just hovering around. Horribly dated and completely useless flashbacks do nothing except add to the film's running time, a very long 97 minutes. Pretty terrible direction and even worse editing just sink this production.

The Vestron Video VHS print (which this was) might be a theatrical version of the film: there's brief nudity during the flashbacks. (The nudity doesn't help add any interest either!)

Thank God for the fast forward button on my remote.

Essentially a TV movie star our beloved Dr. Kimble was too aged by its time by excessive tobacco use and also by alcohol abuse, he seemed to near ten years older, therefore we can ensure this was his last movie at your carrier.

Janssen plays a park ranger to led a rescue of some untrained climbers struck at high mountain at Washington State, when he finally reaches at base operation one chopper already crashed on recue attempt, worst he has to be dealing with a selfish Army Officer, he decides landing on the top and get off by rope to save them, by human mistake he falls down at edge broken his leg, even so he tried hard save one of the girl stranded nearby.

Technically speaking this small budge flick has a ton of crucial missteps, it becomes into a true nightmare for the audience, as the chopper wrongly and dangerously trying reach at mountain's wall that fatally went to crash, Janssen trying reaches by the top once more their "skilled"crew committed a fatal mistake, to be worsen the Pilot played by Dorian Harewood also put in jeopardy his chopper in high-risk attempt to rescue them, where nobody dared or even wasn't trained for, anyway a kind of disaster movie carried out by a high-trained crew members, thus what's we expecting for?

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First watch: 1987 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 6.25.

This movie was one of the first few US movies authorized to be shown in China after the establishment of foreign diplomatic relationship between the People's Republic of China and the United States in 1979, after a three-decade long hostility between the two countries.

The movie was really an eye-opener for the Chinese audience, as well as the Chinese movie industry, mainly because of the way some scenes were shot. In particular, the scene where the characters were falling down was filmed in the way that it appears the filming crew was falling with the characters, thus creating a realistic impression of point of view from the characters themselves. As a result, there was a few Chinese audience with heart problems had to be carried out from movie theaters after they passed out, resulting from seeing these tense falling scenes. After several incidents like this occurred when this film was shown in China, some Chinese theaters banned patients with known heart problems from seeing this film, for fearing that they might have heart attack again.