Film Review – Sugar Mountain

Sometimes, a movie simply doesn’t work due to a lack of seasoned professionals involved in the production. The screenplay (by Abe Pogos) for “Sugar Mountain” actually holds promise, looking to merge a “Fargo”-lite crime story about bad ideas gone wrong with a domestic disturbance tale, hoping to come out the other side with an emotionally profound, nail-biting feature that manages to do something with a limited budget. Director Richard Gray has a few credits to his name, but his command of “Sugar Mountain” is tenuous at best, struggling to fashion a suspenseful picture about family and betrayal, only to offer an amateurish drama that bites off more than it can chew. Early promise for a ripe inspection of brotherly unrest is quickly dismissed by limited actors and a helmer who never seems to know what he’s doing. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com