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RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams
Against the Ice delivers all the delirious period drama thrills and survival horror angst that you could want from a movie with that title.
Against the Ice
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- Iceland,
- Denmark
- 2022
- · 101m
Director
Peter Flinth
Cast
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau,
Joe Cole,
Charles Dance,
Heida Reed,
Gísli Örn Garðarsson,
Sam Redford
Genre
Drama,
Adventure,
History
In 1909, Denmark's Alabama Expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen was attempting to disprove the United States' claim to North-Eastern Greenland, a claim that was rooted in the idea that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving their crew behind with the ship, Mikkelsen sleds across the ice with his inexperienced crew member, Iver Iversen.
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What are critics saying?
60
The Guardian by Benjamin Lee
Against the Ice is a Danish story flattened for a global audience.
60
The Telegraph by Tim Robey
Against the Ice is very square, very straight, and just naggingly average in all departments.
50
Slashfilm
If you're looking for a feel-bad movie with some absolutely stunning cinematography and an appreciation for the tenacity of the human spirit, then Against the Ice was made for you.
50
Movie Nation by Roger Moore
Veteran Danish director Peter Flinth (“Beatles” and “Nobel’s Last Will” were his) delivers a film that feels approved by its co-writer and star in terms of thoroughness, but that lumbers as it passes from one waypoint to the next in the standard “alone in the Arctic” narrative.
50
Screen Daily by Fionnuala Halligan
A soft-edged, stolid blend of gorgeous geographical authenticity with a global-facing English-speaking cast whose accents range from Joe Cole’s Brit to co-producer, co-writer and leading man Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s mid-Atlantic purr.
42
IndieWire by David Ehrlich
Forget “The Terror,” here comes “The Tedium.”
40
The New York Times by Beatrice Loayza
It’s perfectly formulaic.
40
Variety by Jessica Kiang
To reduce a titanic struggle for survival in one of the most inhospitable climes on earth to such by-the-numbers drama is in many ways akin to standing on a jagged frozen peak, gazing across blizzard-assailed permafrost plains to crumbling white cliffs and ice shelfs beyond and thinking “Snow.”
40
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
In the end, the most remarkable thing about Against the Ice is that a real-life story of two men at the mercy of the unforgiving elements, of hunger and illness, possible attack and encroaching madness, can be so curiously deprived of tension.
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