Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Raoul Walsh directed four of Errol Flynn's World War II movies at Warner Brothers. The best was "Objective: Burma" with Flynn and company parachuting into Burma to show the British who could stop the Japanese. Mind you, the British hated Flynn for this film, and Warners had to pull it before the Brits firebombed it. Although "Objective: Burma" ranked as the best of Flynn's collaborations with Walsh, their initial propaganda outing "Desperate Journey" was far more fun but totally unrealistic. Walsh and Flynn teamed up between these two combat pictures with "Northern Pursuit." Unlike the authentic-looking "Objective: Burma" that took place in the Pacific Theater of Operations and "Desperate Journey" with its European Theater of Operations, "Northern Pursuit" took place in appropriately above us in Canada. Flynn is cast as intrepid Corporal Steve Wagner of Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman. Meantime, a U-Boat lands Luftwaffe Colonel Hugo von Keller (Helmet Dantine of "Hotel Berlin") in Canada via a U-Boat, but his men and he don't get far before their Indian tracker precipitate an avalanche that killed Keller's men and left him barely alive. He stumbles onto a German aviator "Northern Pursuit" is the kind of World War II that nobody can complain about. Aside from Louis Milestone's "Edge of Darkness" where Flynn played a native Norwegian and Walsh's "Uncertain Glory" where he played a French criminal, Flynn played a Canadian. The plot here involves Keller as he searches for the parts to assemble a German bomber, so his men and he can bomb the St. Lawrence Waterway. As far as I know, this was the only wartime film that targeted the waterway, while many others took aim at the Panama Canal. Anyway, the RCMP discover something treasonous about Wagner owing to his German ancestry and they drum him out. Of course, you know that neither Flynn nor his character could have anything to do with the Nazis. Although it isn't as much fun as "Desperate Journey," pulp novelist Frank Gruber, scenarist Alvah Bessie, with an uncredited William Faulkner make its twists and turns palatable enough to be consistently entertaining stuff. Julie Bishop plays Flynn's love interest who doesn't believe that he could turn his back on Canada.

Errol Flynn was a fascinating screen presence. Just look at how many books have been written about him including a couple he wrote himself. I found a good dozen on Amazon before I stopped counting. Some well-known actors and filmmakers often have only one biography or even none at all."Northern Pursuit" isn't the best of his movies, but it is Flynn at his best. He looks in great shape despite the fact that he had a dicky ticker, a bad back, tuberculosis, a couple of exotic diseases picked up along the way and a liver that was in more danger of destruction than any target of the Nazis in the film.Set in Canada during WW2, Errol plays Steve Wagner, a Royal Canadian Mountie of German Ancestry whose loyalty is questioned when he comes across Nazi secret agents who are planning to bomb a canal that is critical to the Allied war effort.Although the story feels cobbled together, the film looks good. Most of it was shot on the sound stage and no doubt a great deal of talcum powder and papier mache was employed, but the sequence where a U-Boat breaks through the ice and scenes such as the avalanche are brilliantly staged.However the stars make the film. Although Errol was rarely upstaged, Helmut Dantine was Warner's go-to Nazi guy during the war years. He plays Colonel Hugo von Keller in this film. The reason why Dantine was more effective than many screen Nazis at the time was the degree of intelligence with which he approached his roles. He was no off-the-rack, monocled Nazi stereotype, he came across as vigorous, smart and fanatical; a formidable enemy, he was also good looking and often got the best lines.If you like the stars, and Flynn was absolutely unique, then there is much to enjoy here. In fact the film was a bit of a turning point for him- he even got a laugh with an in-joke at the end alluding to his recent acquittal on rape charges. From that point on he went along with the joke about his sexual prowess although those who knew him felt that it hurt his desire to be taken seriously as an actor.Finally, for anyone with a sense of history, "Northern Pursuit" is a fascinating insight into what audiences were watching during the war even if they took it all with a generous pinch of salt.

. . . which is the main reason why Germany kept losing World Wars. During WWI they tried to win by digging a trench from Berlin to Buckingham Palace, not realizing that the English Channel was serving as a castle moat. Then, as NORTHERN PURSUIT documents, for WWII they thought they could assemble and fly a secret stash of airplane parts from the Yukon to destroy the strategic shipping locks at Sault St. Marie. In the unlikely event that such a bomber actually could be put together from an Erector Set in the Arctic of the Far North, it could NOT have reached even the halfway point to the Locks connecting Canada to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Likewise, since the Nazis had burned all the history and geography books within their realm in the 1930s, they had no understanding of the vast distance from Berlin to Central Russia, and no way of knowing what a disaster Napoleon's Russian Campaign had been a century earlier. In NORTHERN PURSUIT, Errol Flynn plays a Keystone Mountie bumbler who keeps getting the other Mounties killed (including the Best Man for his upcoming wedding). Fortunately for the Allied Cause, the Nazis of this episode were even more bumbling.

Reading the other IMDb reviews of Northern Pursuit, I began to wonder if the monkey-see-monkey-do reviewers trashing it watched the same movie I did! Or if they watched it at all. This Mounties versus Nazis picture bears little resemblance, as claimed, to The 49th Parallel and even less to Across The Pacific.From the opening scene with a German submarine breaking through the ice in Hudson Bay to the climatic showdown in a bomber aloft, Northern Pursuit is high-powered excitement all the way. Not surprisingly, with all the high-powered talent Warner Brothers threw into this enjoyable World War II action picture. Top action director Raoul Walsh directs top action star Errol Flynn with a script by popular western writer Frank Gruber and high class novelist William Faulkner. Solid support is provided by Helmut Dantine, reprising his ruthless Nazi officer from Edge Of Darkness (see my review), perky Julie Bishop, Tom Tully, John Ridgely, and Gene Lockhart in another of what was becoming his stock sneaky, Nazi sympathizer role. First rate camera work by Sid Hickox and the smooth editing typical in movies of this era blends studio sets and Idaho ski resort locations with skillfully dovetailed backdrop matting to so successfully convince us we were above the Artic Circle, it gave me a chill at times. The action is propelled along by one Adolphe Deutsch's better scores, enlivened by some input by the great Max Steiner. The story of German descent Mountie Flynn penetrating a Nazi-sympathizing Canadian spy organization co-operating with escaped German prisoners of war maintains suspense and interest throughout. The sharply directed action includes an avalanche, a prison camp breakout, a hair-raising ski chase, and a shoot-out in a mine shaft. Characterization and acting are top notch. Dantine's Nazi Colonel is particularly well realized. This Austrian refugee actor no doubt knew what real-life Nazis were like. He had had to flee his home country because because of his anti-Nazi activities.While not a classic of the genre like Edge Of Darkness, Nothern Pursuit is a top "A" production war/intrigue thriller, effective WWII propaganda yet enjoyable, exciting, smooth entertainment from Warner Brothers' and Old Hollywood's Golden years.