a slapdash combination of monster movie and environmentalist message movie and it have little to recommend it . al gore have be give his popular presentation on global warming for a year or so and be to win an academy award for it in 2006 and the same year this be release . it look like a hastily put together attempt to cash in on legitimate concern about oil drilling in the arctic national wildlife refuge . a team of half a dozen or so and include an environmental scientist and be explore the drilling possibility in northern alaska . the team be diverse . there an inuit woman and a sexy woman and and various other character lead by the gruff and skeptical ron perlman . look out for this spoiler . i feel compel to add that warn although there not much doubt that the seasoned viewer will be able to see the end come . one by one and something terrible happen to the team member . the first of them and a man and strip naked and walk off into the unending snow field and after mutter about something out there and posit some kind of sour gas ( hydrogen sulfide ) seep out of the ground . if he be correct about the gas and everybody would know about it . it have the smell of rotten egg and turn nickel black . the next bleeds to death from his nose . by this time even perlman be irritated and call for help . ala and the incoming airplane crash into the base and burn everything up and include the occupant of the airplane and one or two more team member . the eskimo woman go nut and apparently kill another team member and though i be a little confused by this time . the sexy woman and connie britton and who have a magnetic face without be the least conventionally beautiful and seem to be the sole survivor . she give the best performance too . perlman lapse into the common habit of deliver each use of the f word with emphasis and a if to underline it suppose shock value . all the way through the film and people have be murmur about thing be out there somewhere . sometimes they glimpse a strange and inexplicable sight for an instant and too short a time to recognize it . what it be and be a herd of the most unlikely look computer generate ghoulish quadruped monster you have ever see or imagine . with that and any suspense or witchery fade into the white out . it might have be a much well movie if the writer and director have follow val lewton example and leave the monster unseen or possibly imaginary instead of literal . but then a lot of possibility be throw away . this be a bleak and majestic landscape and film in alaska and iceland and and absolutely nothing be make of it pictorial potential . imagine what david lean would have do with such a location . and maybe this be a personal quirk and but i felt some resentment at the cheap attempt to cash in on a serious ecological problem . the issue be of such importance that it deserve good than this politically correct attempt to make money from it .