After a remote diamond mine collapses in the far northern regions of Canada, an ice driver leads an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the lives of trapped miners despite thawing waters and a threat they never see coming.... (Full plot summary below)
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After a remote diamond mine collapses in the far northern regions of Canada, an ice driver leads an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the lives of trapped miners despite thawing waters and a threat they never see coming.
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| We Got This CoveredMartin CarrThe Ice Road further cements Liam Neeson’s reputation as the only action star in the 60-70 age bracket worth his salt. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThe Ice Road is what we used to call a B-movie, but there’s no shame in a B-movie that carries out its mission with such competence and star power. |
| TimeStephanie ZacharekEven after The Ice Road overcomplicates itself, there’s enough gas here to keep the thing going, including some nicely sustained bridge-crossing suspense and several fine demonstrations of stunt dangling. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe thrills here are both cheap and oddly, comfortingly captivating. Of course nothing can ever kill Liam Neeson, but it is a whole lot of no-brain-necessary fun to watch everyone and everything try. |
| IndieWireDavid EhrlichIf this mildly refreshing mid-June spectacle is as thin and straightforward as the terrain that it covers — forgettable in a way that makes you feel like it’s melting while you watch it, and never as slick an action vehicle as its premise might suggest — it still manages to offer a few mild twists before the journey is over. |
| The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloEven at its dumbest, The Ice Road holds your attention; a climactic fight/chase scene even acknowledges that it’s hard to look badass on a slippery surface. |
| Boston GlobeMark FeeneyA predictable, semi-shameless, yet not-unsatisfying action drama. |
| The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckLuckily, Neeson has a way of lending his rough-hewn dignity to even the most perfunctory of plots — because this one, it must be said, is perfunctory. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreNeeson is in solid form, villains do their villainy and the sassy lady driver copes with anti-Native racism with her smart mouth and her fists, to fun effect. But that over-the-top third act, topping even the odd operating-on-ice physics of The Ice Road, tends to take the air right out of the Jonathan Hensleigh film’s tires. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyJust about every possible peril turns up to thwart their mission en route, making for an increasingly implausible action movie that will entertain most viewers, but also perhaps make them feel a bit played for fools. |
