Against the Ice

Worth watching to see the limits of human endurance in another era before GPS, mobile phones, modern equipment. It must have been the 1910 equivalent of a trip into outer space . Absorbing film that captured the extreme length of the expedition and what must have been huge monotony without actually being boring.

A solid icy wilderness adventure film, based on a true story about a Danish expedition to discover the extent of Greenland. It's not quite up there with Mads Mikkelsen's ARCTIC but it's nonetheless an enduring and very well made production, with a good eye for detail throughout and fine performances from the two leads.

I cant believe why the ratings are so low? It deserves a good 7 or 8 for the brilliant cinematography!! For those who love classics like Dances with the wolves and other 90s, this is the film for them. Slow ... natural and lost in nature! Its the kind of film that doesnt need any action, its all there !!! The ratings cannot be trusted. It seems like people expected spiderman to jump in these landscapes!!! Watch it with no bias and you d love it!!!

Directed by Peter Flinth, the movie is like a Jack London novel set in 1910.

Dogs, polar travel, nature and people.

Although Peter Flinth has many films, this one is a masterpiece.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Joe Derrick both starred and wrote the script.

Charles Dance is the surprise name of the movie.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau deserves all my respect.

Visual and sound engineering is very good.

The movie is a very good choice, especially for those who like Jack London-style novels.

"Against The Ice" is a movie that explains why Greenland belongs to Denmark and part of it was contested by the Americans. This is the plot and storyline, very simple. Ejnar (played by Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Iver (played by Joe Cole) were real people who embarked on a grim expedition in 1909 to follow up on a previous Danish expedition in 1907. The movie is slow paced but thanks to the cinematography it did not bother me at al. Don´t look forward to great dialogues because the most sound you will hear, will come from the wind howling. The acting performances from Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Joe Cole were very convincing as opposed to the unconvincing CGI polar bears. If you´re a history buff or nature fan, you will definitely like this movie.