It's June 1979. Corporal Rudy Spruance (Jason Biggs) expects to go to Hawaii but is shocked to be abandoned on an isolated base in Greenland. He has been mistaken for a Cpl Peterson. Sgt. Irene Teal (Natascha McElhone) is happy to have the Public Information Officer Peterson for her base commander Col. Woolwrap (Jeremy Northam) despite knowing that he's not Peterson. Haphazardly, he tries to escape. The camp is populated by tired rejects resigned to their fates and he also resigns to be a writer for the base newspaper. Then he discovers a secret experimental hospital ward and he befriends X (Michael Ironside).
The pace is so slow that most of the quirky comedy doesn't work. The tireness coming out of the characters seem to infect the movie. It's trying to be funny but fails. Then it adds a drama which seems to come out of nowhere. None of the movie really works and it falls mostly flat.
The pace is so slow that most of the quirky comedy doesn't work. The tireness coming out of the characters seem to infect the movie. It's trying to be funny but fails. Then it adds a drama which seems to come out of nowhere. None of the movie really works and it falls mostly flat.