Após o desabamento de mina de diamantes no norte do Canada, um motorista de caminhão precisa liderar uma missão impossível de resgate e dirigir sobre o mar congelado para salvar os mineiros.Após o desabamento de mina de diamantes no norte do Canada, um motorista de caminhão precisa liderar uma missão impossível de resgate e dirigir sobre o mar congelado para salvar os mineiros.Após o desabamento de mina de diamantes no norte do Canada, um motorista de caminhão precisa liderar uma missão impossível de resgate e dirigir sobre o mar congelado para salvar os mineiros.
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The title and plot synopsis of this film naturally reminds me - and surely many others - instantly of that TV-series "Ice Road Truckers" that I watched on Discovery Channel around the years 2007-2010. To be honest, the TV documentary/series was really cool and fascinating for a few episodes, but it got monotonous quite fast and, after two seasons, only the sensationalist-narrator still seemed to believe that something terrible might happen. Weird, in fact, that nobody thought sooner about turning this concept into an action-packed and spectacularly cinematographed thriller? Because, when it's fiction, you can sacrifice heroic truckers and allow for 18-wheel trucks to sink to the bottom as much as you want!
Who else than the mighty Liam Neeson would you expect in the role of hard-boiled, grumpy, persistent, and heroic ice road trucker? Well, actually, the role might as well have been played by either Bruce Willis, Nicolas Cage, or John Travolta. Since several years, they have all four chosen for a career full of standard but nevertheless entertaining and action-packed thrillers with a lot of violence. Neeson's role? A trucker who - in exchange for a massive sum of money, of course - accepts the immensely dangerous assignment of transporting supplies and an industrial drill towards Northern Manitoba, via frozen rivers and lakes in April (while they're normally only used until March) and reach a collapsed mine before 26 slowly suffocating miners completely run out of oxygen. The deadline is tight, the trip is already perilous, but the plot is further thickened with corporate shenanigans, sabotages left and right, and the fact Neeson must look after his mentally traumatized brother.
"The Ice Road" obviously isn't a great or even highly memorable movie, but it's exactly how I like my Liam Neeson action-movies: fast-paced, occasionally tense, implausible but spectacular, and full of loathsome bad guys in a corporate suit. The best way to describe the film is like a less brilliant version of the great French classic "Le Salaire de la Peur" (or its good William Friedkin remake "Sorcerer"), but then - duh - in a northern hemisphere setting. Sure, you can debate the imposed "woke" influences were needed, or if the vicious corporate tycoons covering up incidents hasn't become too much of a dreadful cliché by now, but you could also simply enjoy the straightforward action footage and the beautiful Canadian landscapes.
Who else than the mighty Liam Neeson would you expect in the role of hard-boiled, grumpy, persistent, and heroic ice road trucker? Well, actually, the role might as well have been played by either Bruce Willis, Nicolas Cage, or John Travolta. Since several years, they have all four chosen for a career full of standard but nevertheless entertaining and action-packed thrillers with a lot of violence. Neeson's role? A trucker who - in exchange for a massive sum of money, of course - accepts the immensely dangerous assignment of transporting supplies and an industrial drill towards Northern Manitoba, via frozen rivers and lakes in April (while they're normally only used until March) and reach a collapsed mine before 26 slowly suffocating miners completely run out of oxygen. The deadline is tight, the trip is already perilous, but the plot is further thickened with corporate shenanigans, sabotages left and right, and the fact Neeson must look after his mentally traumatized brother.
"The Ice Road" obviously isn't a great or even highly memorable movie, but it's exactly how I like my Liam Neeson action-movies: fast-paced, occasionally tense, implausible but spectacular, and full of loathsome bad guys in a corporate suit. The best way to describe the film is like a less brilliant version of the great French classic "Le Salaire de la Peur" (or its good William Friedkin remake "Sorcerer"), but then - duh - in a northern hemisphere setting. Sure, you can debate the imposed "woke" influences were needed, or if the vicious corporate tycoons covering up incidents hasn't become too much of a dreadful cliché by now, but you could also simply enjoy the straightforward action footage and the beautiful Canadian landscapes.
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.
Yes it's not "My Dinner with Andre" or "Mindwalk", but is a Liam Neeson, Saturday afternoon beer drinking action movie. It's pure escapism from S-show that is America 2021.
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.
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- CuriosidadesNetflix reportedly paid US $18 million for the US distribution rights to the film.
- Erros de gravaçãoChains appear & disappear from the drive wheels of the tractors throughout the movie.
- ConexõesFollowed by Ice Road: Vengeance (2025)
- Trilhas sonorasAll I Do Is Drive
Performed by Jason Isbell
Big Machine Label Group, LLC
Written by Johnny Cash (as John R. Cash)
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- Também conhecido como
- Riesgo Bajo Cero
- Locações de filme
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canadá(Filming locations)
- Empresas de produção
- Consulte mais créditos da empresa na IMDbPro
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- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 7.502.846
- Tempo de duração1 hora 49 minutos
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- 2.39:1
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