After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a 'big-rig' ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen lake to save the trapped miners.After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a 'big-rig' ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen lake to save the trapped miners.After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a 'big-rig' ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen lake to save the trapped miners.
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I nearly didn't watch this after reading the scathing reviews on here. I'm glad I ignored them. It not an Oscar winner but then some of them are as boring as hell. Think Gravity! It was a good storyline, reasonably acted, and kept my attention throughout. What more can you want from a film for a relaxing nights viewing. Folk on here are dissecting it like in an autopsy. Ignore all the negative comments and give it a go.
Not sure who is my favorite from the 2. But both seem to love the 1-man-show kind of films which have absurd and nonsensical stories.
The Ice Road is...just another Liam Neeson movie. Obviously Nick Cage would have liked to be in this one, but Liam got there first.
Realism went for vacation here. Trucks and truckers after having seen this film are probably furious with these completely wrong and unbelievable scenes.
But, that's the Hollywood magic.
So folks this ain't a documentary but an action film set in cold Canada involving trucks, mines, bad people and ice roads.
In fact, it's an enjoyable action flick.
It needs to be seen with the right amount of patience, to go through all the silly dialogue moments and the unreal truck scenes.
Maybe the cinema experience helps too.
So, switch off and you might actually enjoy it.
5,9/10.
The Ice Road is...just another Liam Neeson movie. Obviously Nick Cage would have liked to be in this one, but Liam got there first.
Realism went for vacation here. Trucks and truckers after having seen this film are probably furious with these completely wrong and unbelievable scenes.
But, that's the Hollywood magic.
So folks this ain't a documentary but an action film set in cold Canada involving trucks, mines, bad people and ice roads.
In fact, it's an enjoyable action flick.
It needs to be seen with the right amount of patience, to go through all the silly dialogue moments and the unreal truck scenes.
Maybe the cinema experience helps too.
So, switch off and you might actually enjoy it.
5,9/10.
I don't agree with the negative reviews rating it the lowest score possible. For that there are countless worse movies than The Ice Road. I don't know what those people expect from a movie with Liam Neeson? Everybody knows exactly how a movie with him will end. Liam Neeson always wins so that's case closed. I thought the story was entertaining, with some good moments of suspense. Did it look realistic? No, certainly not. But it's a movie with Liam Neeson so what do you expect? I don't care about futile things like that, I just want entertainment, and that's exactly what I got.
This movie didn't need to be made. I'm surprised the eggheads at Netflix didn't just cast Adam Sandler. I'm neither a trucker or a miner, but I'm Insulted on the behalf of both professions.
Watchable but predictible and very bad cgi for 2021.
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- TriviaNetflix reportedly paid US $18 million for the US distribution rights to the film.
- GoofsChains appear & disappear from the drive wheels of the tractors throughout the movie.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Ice Road: Vengeance (2025)
- SoundtracksAll I Do Is Drive
Performed by Jason Isbell
Big Machine Label Group, LLC
Written by Johnny Cash (as John R. Cash)
Published by BMG Firefly obo Song of Cash Music
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- Riesgo Bajo Cero
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- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada(Filming locations)
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- $7,502,846
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- 1h 49m(109 min)
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- 2.39:1
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