{"id":284391,"date":"2021-06-26T05:16:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T02:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-ice-road-needed-some-sorcery-during-pre-post-production\/"},"modified":"2021-06-26T05:16:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T02:16:56","slug":"the-ice-road-needed-some-sorcery-during-pre-post-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ice-road-needed-some-sorcery-during-pre-post-production\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;The Ice Road&#8217; Needed Some Sorcery During Pre\/Post-Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;The Ice Road&#8217; Needed Some Sorcery During Pre\/Post-Production<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9-->While some actors seek out challenging and surprising fare, others find a comfort zone and stick to it. <strong>Liam Neeson<\/strong>\u2018s late career sees him in that second group, and while he\u2019s been threatening to quit action <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> for several years now he just can\u2019t find the strength to walk away. His latest foray into the genre suggests he\u2019s got one foot out the door, though, as <strong><em>The Ice Road<\/em><\/strong> feels like a half-hearted venture at nearly every turn.<\/p>\n<p>A methane explosion at the Katka diamond mine in Manitoba leaves several miners dead and many more tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed beneath the earth\u2019s surface. They\u2019re on a countdown clock as breathable air grows ever scarcer, but a rescue mission requires an enormously heavy wellhead and piping that they don\u2019t have. Too heavy to fly, the equipment can only be delivered by trucks, and the time limit means the 65,000 pound vehicles will need to traverse ice roads \u2014 paths cleared out for <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> across frozen lakes during the winter months. That season ended weeks ago, and it being mid-April means the ice is melting and the roads are extremely hazardous.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of drivers are willing to take the risk (and the hefty paycheck that comes with it), and soon three trucks loaded with identical equipment for redundancy are heading north. Mike (Neeson) and his brother Gurty (<strong>Marcus Thomas<\/strong>), an Iraq War vet with terrific mechanical skills and a post-war mental disorder, sign up for the paycheck while Jim (<strong>Laurence Fishburne<\/strong>) heads up the trucking company and gets behind the wheel of the second truck. A young Native woman named Tantoo (<strong>Amber Midthunder<\/strong>) has a more personal motivation as her brother is among the trapped miners, and she\u2019s joined by a mining company insurance man named Varnay (<strong>Benjamin Walker<\/strong>) who definitely won\u2019t cause any trouble along the way. It should come as no surprise that not all of them will survive the journey.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Ice Road<\/em> starts from a strong premise pitting earnest characters against the deadly challenge of treacherous terrain in pursuit of a better life, but things quickly fall apart for both the characters and the film. While it aims to be the streaming cousin to <em>The Wages of Fear<\/em> (1953) or <em>Sorcerer<\/em> (1977), it instead gets stuck in first gear and stalls out as just another Neeson picture. It\u2019s a shame as that setup has real potential for suspense and tension \u2014 hell, The History Channel milked it for ten years with their \u201creality\u201d series <em>Ice Road Truckers<\/em> (2007-2017) \u2014 but writer\/director <strong>Jonathan Hensleigh<\/strong> doesn\u2019t appear to have faith that it\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n<p>Hensleigh has the genre chops as a writer for fare that\u2019s both relatively grounded (<em>Die Hard With a Vengeance<\/em>, 1995) and utterly ridiculous (<em>Armageddon<\/em>, 1998), but his attempt to straddle that line here ends up a clumsy balancing act doomed to sink beneath the ice. Early sequences on the ice road manage some suspense as each crack echoes across frightened faces, but in addition to some questionable choices \u2014 one truck breaks down on the ice, and the others back up to be near it which is something real ice road truckers would never be stupid enough to do \u2014 the action moves off the ice pretty quickly and onto solid ground as double-crosses, corporate conspiracies, and motorcycle-driving gunmen enter the picture.<\/p>\n<p>The script isn\u2019t <em>The Ice Road<\/em>\u2018s only issue as subpar CG effects turn some of the bigger action beats towards the neighborhood of cheap <em>Fast &amp; Furious<\/em> knockoff. Editing and pacing are equally off-kilter as some sequences rush through an event to the point that it\u2019s not entirely clear what happened or how. Other times drag out, though, as characters stand there watching ice crack beneath their feet or an avalanche rush down a mountain towards them. At one point, with mere minutes of oxygen left for the miners, our heroes stop their truck to get out and marvel at a collapsed bridge behind them. You\u2019d think long-haul truckers would be better with time-management.<\/p>\n<p>There are bright spots, and while they\u2019re not enough to salvage the film necessarily they keep it from being a complete waste of time. An extended action sequence sees armed villains attempting to board the moving trucks, and various antics that entails deliver some thrills. The cast, while small, has some always welcome faces in Fishburne, Holt McCallany, and Matt McCoy. Midthunder is a young Native American actor with an already full resume \u2014 she was last seen in <em>The Marksman<\/em> (2021) with Neeson and is attached to an upcoming <em>Predator<\/em> film \u2014 who brings a burst of attitude and energy to an otherwise older male cast. Neeson, meanwhile, is Neeson. His performances in genre fare over the last decade amounts to take it or leave it, matter of fact appearances, and that\u2019s not about to change here. We do see the back of his stand-in\u2019s head more than usual this time around, but it is what it is.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Ice Road<\/em> feels like a direct to video action movie so it\u2019s fitting it found a home on Netflix, and that\u2019s not a criticism. It is, however, an acknowledgement that the movie lacks the budget to pull of some of its intended thrills. Trucks and people fall through the ice, Neeson punches out baddies, and the people you know won\u2019t make it absolutely don\u2019t make it. You\u2019ll pass some time here, but don\u2019t expect to travel this road again anytime soon.\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLG0nwswvr63Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/the-ice-road-review-netflix\/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-ice-road-review-netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#&#8217;The Ice Road&#8217; Needed Some Sorcery During Pre\/Post-Production&#8221; While some actors seek out challenging and surprising fare, others find a comfort zone and stick to it. Liam Neeson\u2018s late career sees him in that second group, and while he\u2019s been threatening to quit action movies for several years now he just can\u2019t find the strength&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-ice-road-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28925,1377,95779],"class_list":["post-284391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-liam-neeson","tag-netflix","tag-the-ice-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}