The Ice Road

The Ice Road

After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners.

  • Released: 2021-06-24
  • Runtime: 108 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Thrillers
  • Stars: Liam Neeson, Marcus Thomas, Laurence Fishburne, Amber Midthunder, Holt McCallany, Matt McCoy, Martin Sensmeier, Matt Salinger, BJ Verot, Bradley Sawatzky, Chad Bruce, Jake Kennerd, Arne MacPherson, Paul Essiembre, Marshall Williams, Adam Hurtig, Benjamin Walker, Gabriel Daniels
  • Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
 Comments
  • pkhall1 - 29 December 2022
    Really bad...
    It's really hard to wrap your head around the fact that the same guy who is starring in this atrociously scripted fiasco of a movie was the same guy who played Oskar Schindler, Rob Roy, and Bryan Mills. This movie suffers from so many problems it's really hard to try to name just a few. I think it really comes down to bad acting, bad script, bad editing, and really overall, just a really bad storyline. Pretty much every actor in the movie was at the best, a "C" actor with the exception of Liam who was completely wasted in the storyline. Literally anyone could've played his role and not change the outcome of the movie one bit. Overall a real disappointment.
  • Aylmer - 26 August 2022
    Low-brow version of SORCERER in the Arctic
    I can imagine the pitch meeting for this one.

    Writer: "Hey, remember that movie that nobody saw back in the 70's with all the guys with nothing left to lose driving trucks across an inhospitable landscape so they can help fix an environmental disaster? Let's just change it from an oil well fire to a coal mine cave-in, make it three trucks instead of two, and set it on an ice road instead of the rain forest."

    One of the 300 Producers of this Film: "Sounds intriguing. Can we make it so that the mine has miners stranded in it who are running out of air, plus set it in the spring so that the ice road the trucks drive on is melting? That'll give it a ticking clock element which will raise the stakes and make it even more suspenseful!"

    Writer: "Well, SORCERER had a lot of psychological elements like a shady hit man possibly joining the team just to kill one of the main characters..."

    Producer: "That's awesome! More hit men please. Let's also make one of the characters a straight-up evil saboteur and telegraph it right away so that the audience has a villain to boo against."

    Writer: "That's maybe a little too on-the-nose. We need the audience to feel a little conflicted or present a character with an arc or something."

    Producer: "I know, let's throw in a dark and brooding character who happens to be a tough Native American gal who is also an insufferable social justice activist type. Then we can work in a little bit of propaganda disguised as character development and make the audience guess a little bit at first over who might want to sabotage the mission. This will raise our parent corporation's Environmental Social Governance score, which is more important to us than making a good movie."

    Writer: "Par for the course these days. Should I write in some exciting action sequences too like with an avalanche (even though this is set in flat Manitoba) and a treacherous bridge crossing sequence because, remember, I like SORCERER so much."

    Producer: "Yes, write in all the ambitious action sequences you want and don't worry about making sure they narratively make any sense or not. Our dozens of producers will pitch in for some poor 90's-style CGI to accomplish it. Nobody will know the difference since they'll be watching on a small screen anyway."

    Writer: "Should I write with any stars in mind?"

    Producer: "Well, as far as straight to video action stars go, we will need someone a little higher level than Seagal or Van Damme. Bruce Willis is getting close to retirement (write a role for him anyway though, just in case). Let's try for Liam Neeson and Larry Fishburne... plus a couple other washed up guys like Matt McCoy and that one dude from ALIEN³. However, try and write one of those parts small so we can kill him off early and only have to pay for three days of filming."

    Writer: "Wow that sounds great, I'll get started right away."