An interesting premise--is the pipeline an oil company is building in the mountains above an Alaskan town in danger of causing an avalanche that could destroy the town?--is ruined by a poor script, a limp "romance" between the lead actors and special effects that are shoddy even for a PM Entertainment picture. Stars Thomas Ian Griffith and Caroleen Feeney have no chemistry at all, making their budding "romance" completely unbelievable. C. Thomas Howell is his usual annoying self, but thankfully he isn't in the picture all that long. R. Lee Ermey is a bit more interesting as a crusty oil-company employee, and there is some well-integrated stock footage of some terrifying actual avalanches, but the "climactic" avalanche at the end is marred by patently phony-looking miniatures and inept CGI effects. Some of the aerial shots of the Alaskan tundra and mountains are pretty, but overall the film has a lot more minuses than it does pluses. It might be worth a rental if you want to see what Alaska looks like, but otherwise don't expect much from this picture, because you won't get it.

The movie isn't as bad as many of the voters up till now are saying. The movie is nice to watch, although it isn't a high budget Hollywood movie as STAR WARS 3. So, you may expect that the special effects and avalanches shown are not as real as you could get them , but still they are acceptable. The story makes up for it. Don't watch this movie for it's special effects, but just to see a nice watchable movie which is in general of medium+ quality, taking all things together.The is certain a tension building up while watching the movie, which is also a little predictable, but, again, still acceptable.Generally speaking, the votes on IMDb are low, for many many movies. Why ? I don't know. It's isn't me, I think, having watched 1000+ DVD's. Indeed there are bad made movies, but this one isn't all that bad at all. If you wanted to see a movie , just for fun, with no complicated but reasonable enjoyable plot, this is surely one for rent.I'll give it 7 point, just making a statement it's not a super movie but worth watching.

It really is about as bad a movie as I have ever seen. It is hard to find a single redeeming thing to say about it. The acting was awful; the romance totally unbelievable. I guess I'd never seen Juneau before in a movie. I would recommend that you watch it only if trapped in a mountain cabin room with a TV but no other furniture, books, people, radios or light and if you aren't tired already because this one will certainly put you to sleep. I like disaster movies and can watch the worst of them, and have, but this one has made me rethink ever watching one ever again. It gave a whole new meaning to the catchphrase disaster movie, it is a disaster to watch, not just about a disaster.

After starring in a movie such as Vampires one would expect Thomas Ian Griffith to not make a movie like this. It's about an evil company that builds an oil pipeline thru a snowy mountain town and causes an avalanche when it goes haywire. The avalanche FX and the terribly interwoven stock footage are the worst I've ever seen. You'll have a hot seeing how awful it is and how anyone involved with the film could allow them to be so poor. See this on TV like I did. Don't rent it. It's seriously bad. 1/10