

Acting
Judd Nelson delivers 'coked-up motivational speaker' with unsettling commitment.
Practical Effects
Real snow, real flailing, real sense nobody read the script beforehand.

Director
Mark L. Lester
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark L. Lester directed the 1985 cult classic Commando—this is what happens when you swap Schwarzenegger for Judd Nelson and a ski lodge.
This epitomizes the early-2000s direct-to-video action boom: recognizable faces, exotic-ish locations, and scripts written in a weekend.