After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, Mike (Liam Neeson), a ‘big-rig’ ice road driver, must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners.
Our Take: If you are a Liam Neeson fan, you will not be disappointed.
Streaming? Yes. Netflix.
There’s always something a little bit nuanced about Neeson films that makes them just different enough from one another that they can keep you coming back again. Sure, it’s a movie where Liam Neeson is in the cold and drives a big vehicle and has some family baggage and has to kill lots of nameless white guys who are conspiring against him, and sure, that might be the plot of Cold Pursuit as well, but we promise it’s different this time!
We enjoyed this film for the most part. It’s a little too long, there are some plot points we thought were gratuitous. But generally there’s the right amount of adrenaline and intrigue, there are a few unexpected plot twists, and there’s a healthy dose of Canadian government funding and big-rig product placement as well. What more could you need? Hopefully your answer to that question is a decent score because you’ll get that too.
There are some movies that make you think. There are some movies that make you sit on the edge of your seat. We’ll let you figure out what this one is. Settle in on the couch and spend 90 minutes hoping that Liam Neeson (in whatever iteration we have this time) defeats the bad guys.
Featuring: Amber Midthunder, who you may recognize from Grey’s Anatomy or Roswell: New Mexico. We’re not her biggest fan (actually we really hate her character in Roswell) and while she plays essentially the same character here, she’s almost likable.
Smash and Nasty go to the movies 