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Liam Neeson has nothing to prove. But his stardom might be endangered, his legacy at stake, if he continues to sign up for recycled, dead-on-arrival stuff like the Ice Road films. The very fact that it has a sequel is bizarre. It’s the most blatantly dull entry in the already asinine action films that no one would remember even a few days after seeing it. The problem with these generic films is their lack of personality. There’s no sass, bite, or distinct voice that the characters have in the Ice Road films. Everyone is super-efficient with the stunts, but the depth is altogether missing.

Director Jonathan Hensleigh fills the films with so much inherent complacency that nothing sticks out memorably. Some stunts are adroit, slick, but none of the characters bear their own particular set of grievances and resentments that make them humanly compelling. They make expressions, wince,...

“Ice Road: Vengeance” is the new action thriller sequel, written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh, following the further adventures of truck driver ‘Mike McCann’ (Neeson), with Fan Bingbing, Marcus Thomas, Grace O’Sullivan, Saksham Sharma, Bernard Curry, Geoff Morrell, Mahesh Jadu, Amelia Bishop, Shapoor Batliwalla, Monish Anand, Shivantha Wijesinha and Cj Bloomfield, releasing June 27, 2025 in theaters:

“…big rig ice road driver ‘Mike McCann’ (Neeson) travels to Nepal to scatter his late brother’s ashes on Mt. Everest.

“But while on a packed tour bus traversing the deadly 12,000 ft. terrain of the infamous ‘Road to the Sky’, McCann and his mountain guide encounter a group of ruthless mercenaries…

‘…and must fight to save not only themselves but the innocent passengers and a local village on the brink of destruction…”

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"Can you outrun it?" "Is there a choice?" Nope - keep on driving. Vertical has revealed an official trailer for Ice Road: Vengeance, a surprise sequel to the movie The Ice Road from 2021 (did anyone watch it?). In that Liam Neeson thriller he starred as a trucker who drives on ice roads in Canada. In this sequel, Neeson returns and brings his brother's ashes to Nepal.

Liam Neeson is ready to get back behind the wheel of an oversized vehicle for more harrowing hijinks in Ice Road: Vengeance, the anticipated sequel to 2021’s The Ice Road. The latest chapter of the Ice Road series finds Neeson’s Mike McCann traveling to Nepal, where he encounters another above-all-odds scenario requiring his particular skills to navigate.

Here’s the official synopsis for Ice Road: Vengeance courtesy of Vertical:

Big rig ice road driver Mike McCann (Liam Neeson) travels to Nepal to scatter his late brother’s ashes on Mt. Everest. While on a packed tour bus traversing the deadly 12,000 ft. terrain of the infamous Road to the Sky, McCann and his mountain guide (Fan Bingbing) encounter a group of ruthless mercenaries and must fight to save not only themselves but the innocent passengers and a local village on the brink of destruction.

Liam Neeson and Fan Bingbing lead Ice Road: Vengeance,...