In The Ice Road Liam Neeson stars as a down on his luck trucker offered a large amount of money to drive one of three trucks carrying industrial machinery in order to save trapped miners who are quickly running out of air due to an explosion that trapped them in a diamond mine. The mission is sabotaged by the greedy owners of the mine who don't want evidence that they were not following safety measures and are responsible for the explosion and cave in that trapped the miners.
In a nutshell this isn't a good movie in any way. It started off by trying to introduce some weak character development and then it slowly progresses into ludicrous action that makes no sense whatsoever. There are so many things that happen that range from implausible to impossible like one of the villains tumbling down a mountain, getting on a snowmobile, overtaking the protaginists and then setting off an avalanche to kill the protagonists. They survive obviously and there is more fighting. Another trucker gets a tree branch imaled into her chest but she is practically unharmed by it. Two truckers fall through the ice, get out and warm up in the truck as if it wasn't a big deal. And it goes on and on like that until the end. The acting is more or less passable, the CGI is not great but it could be forgiven if the story wasn't so dumb and illogical. Unfortunately it was and it brings the whole movie down. 3.5/10.
In a nutshell this isn't a good movie in any way. It started off by trying to introduce some weak character development and then it slowly progresses into ludicrous action that makes no sense whatsoever. There are so many things that happen that range from implausible to impossible like one of the villains tumbling down a mountain, getting on a snowmobile, overtaking the protaginists and then setting off an avalanche to kill the protagonists. They survive obviously and there is more fighting. Another trucker gets a tree branch imaled into her chest but she is practically unharmed by it. Two truckers fall through the ice, get out and warm up in the truck as if it wasn't a big deal. And it goes on and on like that until the end. The acting is more or less passable, the CGI is not great but it could be forgiven if the story wasn't so dumb and illogical. Unfortunately it was and it brings the whole movie down. 3.5/10.