Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

handsomebwonderfull I'm honestly not quite sure who to blame for this mess. The writing is obviously weak, but sometimes when you have great actors they can almost blind you to it. That does happen here to a point... Tim Roth, Abbie Cornish, the late Sam Shepard and Tim Blake Nelson all pull in decent performances, and if not for them this 6 hour clunker would have been completely unbearable.Writing, and acting aside the direction here is headscratchingly bad, to the point where You can quite literally see things coming from a mile away. It's cliché after cliché mixed with a bit of decent scenery, and then back to cliché, and that's really all there is to Klondike.If anyone is actually interested in seeing a great period piece that focuses on a gold rush I could not recommend HBO's Deadwood more...boy were we ever spoiled with Deadwood!Juxtaposed with Deadwood, Klondike looks like something a child would create... Go watch Deadwood if you haven't already seen it, you can thank me later!

qormi Very down-to-earth. Unpretentious, intelligent...pulls no punches. The re-creation of the boom town known as Dawson....the lawlessness, the dog- eat-dog mentality, the toiling and tedium as mud and rocks are shoveled as miners stake claims side-by-side in the ice-cold, slippery muck. The con men, prostitutes, thieves, murderers. Jack London depicted as a bright young man with a drinking problem. From the very first episode, you get the feeling that anything can happen...nobody is safe and there are layers to each character. The dialog seems very real...the conditions unrelenting.Dawson is an evil town...its inhabitants never at ease and stalked by disease and people driven by desperation to lie, steal, and kill.

dundeal78 Possible Spoiler (s)...Was looking forward to it, if fact glad that another "reality channel" was dipping into the mini-series market such as History with the Hatfields and McCoys. More disappointed in this than the aforementioned. While the H&M on History was over-melodramatic and flirting with silly, it was still riotously entertaining and the performances by the cast were from very good to superb. Most of the cast in Klondike seem to be on lithium. H&M did a great job in developing characters, using every chance they were on screen to expose their motivations, flaws, strengths, and did it through dialogue and interaction with other characters-- even gestures. In Klondike this very important facet of storytelling is handled by one-line descriptions or a pat phrase. The pacing of Klondike is another issue, break neck for twenty minutes and snailish for forty. Tim Roth-- who is soooooo underutilized they could have put a cardboard Tim Roth mask on a mannequin and wheeled him around-- is the resident thug/soulless usurper, but in watching the show you have to wonder if he's not behaving that way out of simple boredom. He seems to bore the hell out of whoever he's threatening, anyway. The business woman (so uninteresting her name escapes me) is also victim to the writing. What drives her? What brought her to Dawson City? Mom died in childbirth? Well if that don't make ya wanna head to the boonies and sell booze, what would? Al Swearingen she ain't. The hooker? Drop me with a preacher and the turnaround is miraculous. Again, couldn't she have fared better as a gal-fer-rent in San Francisco or New York? One would think you have to be pretty motivated to peddle your virtue if you're going to go through all that trouble to find a whorehouse with the Help Wanted sign...? Her transition from saloon trollop to Florence Nightengale strains belief. Richard Madden is serviceable-- again a victim of the script-- but comes nowhere near the performance he gave us in Game of Thrones. Sam Shepard is the only cast member who seems to be trying to inject a little life into his character, but again the limits of the script seem to hogtie him.I won't go into the RCMP or the Natives, but they also fall victim to cliché.The camera work is a delight. The setting spectacular. The mud looks real. Otherwise, an overall disappointment.

angie-korb I lived in Alaska for many years. This show was disappointing. It was overly dramatic and very unrealistic. A man who falls in the Yukon would have frozen. My music teacher got his feet wet and died of hypothermia, the guy on the show was fully immersed and never built a fire afterward. Wolves don't attack people!!! My dad saw only one wolf the entire 16 years he lived, hunted and trapped in the bush and only because it was upwind. As soon as he clapped his hands it was gone in an instant. They're elusive. It seemed really similar to Game of Thrones, but I accept that show is unrealistic...it has dragons after all. I was hoping for more historical accuracy with this show.