The crew quickly winds up on the run from this admittedly magnificent beast, hashing out old resentments and unfinished emotional business, while the only person talking any sense is slightly deranged local legend Douglass, played with a toothsome grin by Billy Bob Thornton. Oh, the deputy also happens to be Marsden’s big brother, and the medic (Michaela McManus) turns out to be our con’s old high school girlfriend. This all comes as a surprise to the sheriff’s deputy (Thomas Jane) who proudly boasts of putting away his hunting rifle and converting to conservationism, now collaring and trying to save the bears he used to kill as a kid, thanks to the influence of his deaf-mute, nature photographer wife (Piper Perabo). The rather unconvincing James Marsden stars as a weary ex-con returning to his hometown after a 7-year prison stretch, looking for his pricelessly named pal, Johnny Cadillac (Adam Beach), who went missing after taking some nasty poachers on a big game expedition. It seems that the local sheriff (Scott Glenn) has been lining his pockets allowing all sorts of illegal hunting practices and bootleg logging operations, upsetting the forest’s delicate ecosystem enough to earn the ire of an especially quick-tempered grizzly. Things actually work out pretty well for them, considering the circumstances. Not exactly terrible, at least as far as this sort of nature-spolitation schlock goes, Saw V director David Hackl’s Into the Grizzly Maze strands an overqualified cast in the Alaskan wilderness to work out their longstanding family grudges with a thousand-pound, seriously pissed-off bear on their trail.
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