It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Enjoyable as 'The Blues Brothers' was, it didn't really get a chance to show the versatility of John Belushi's acting talent, or his quieter side. 'Continental Divide' does both - it's a love story which isn't outrageous or slapstick, but genuinely sweet and funny.Belushi plays a reporter, Ernie, who takes a vacation from sniffing out corruption in Chicago's high places to get a story on a reclusive female scientist (Blair Brown), who is doing just nicely, holed up in the Rocky Mountains. Ernie isn't really the mountain type but as both characters evolve, he becomes more suited to the hard life.Some corny moments exist in this movie, but it isn't bad at all. It feels a bit like a TV movie rather than a big budget cinema piece (although the locations are beautiful), but it does show there was more to Belushi than you might guess from watching 'National Lampoon's Animal Vacation' or '1941'.

I have long been a believer in the principle that any great comic must first be a great actor. One of the dumbest comments about a film to me is "I knew he/she was a great comic, but I didn't realize he/she could really act." No one who saw Belushi on Saturday Night Live could possibly doubt that he was a great actor. In Continental Divide, he got a chance to broaden his acting into romantic comedy. As Ernie Soucek, a character based on real-life Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mike Royko, Belushi is sent out of Chicago by his editor to keep him safe from a labor racketeer Ernie is after in a hard-hitting series of columns.His assignment is Nell Porter (Blair Brown), an ornithologist who studies bald eagles in the Rockies. It's "the city mouse and the country mouse" on one level, which gives Belushi the chance at some slap-stick comedy with a backpack (among other things).Belushi is a thoroughly believable character throughout, whether in his element on the streets of Chicago, or learning about the new and different world of bald eagles and the beautiful woman who cares passionately about them. Ernie learns to love the eagles, and the woman, and he meets a "wild" mountain man who happens to be a former football player he admired, another element which binds city and country together.I loved this movie, and it bears re-watching. My entire family, as a matter of fact, liked it when it first came out. Guess we're all just romantics at heart!

I think this is Belushi's best work. Although he stays in a kind of character you might find on Saturday Night Live (when it was still funny) he develops the character in a way that Nell and you fall in love with him. BE WARNED, however I first saw this film after Belushi's death and found his character's frequent references to death disturbing. Michael Apted does well in the director's chair. Be sure to see some of his other work i.e. Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorky Park, and The World Is Not Enough.

Well, i think its really a cute laugh-and-sigh movie.John Belushi is at his best as a non-comic character and the movie is a typical 'cult' - that is, not a masterpiece, OK, just cute, but the more you see it, the more you WILL see it MORE...This is a great movie of feelings and fun and stories and love. John Belushi is at his best as a brilliant actor, and all the cameos are well placed. Plus, personally it reminds me of something very personal - and when a movie touches personal feelings, well, it HAS to be a good movie, isn't it?The rating here is a lot lower than mine, of which i can't give an explanation. It is one of my favorite light comedies.