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The production could have gotten one truck driver with only an year of experience to tell them that 90% of this movie is impossible.

Even in the beginning Liam is shown in a cab of a Kenworth yet in the following scene he arrives in a Volvo!?

Trucks laying on their sides weighing 40 tonnes picked up by themselves with a winch are you kidding? And not even a mirror broken!?

Dropping a trailer on ice when it actually was sitting on 10 wheels now it sits on two legs but does not sink?

I could go on for every scene, when you make a movie hire a guy there are millions of truck drivers that will help you with pleasure so you could make a more believable movie.

Definitely a movie to set your rational brain aside and watch simply for the sheer fun of it. That seems to be Liam Neeson's forté lately, and he does it in overdrive in this flick. Call the movie bad if you want, but one has to marvel at the way the film makers produced all the disasters in the picture, the first of which removes Laurence Fishburne from the story in a pulse pounding scenario. I'm watching this with my wife and she's got a blanket over her face every few minutes trying to ward off the inevitable. The backdrop to the story involves corruption at a regional level in which a company skimps on methane detectors and pays its miners to shut off their sensors. The cave in that develops results in Neeson's character and his disabled brother (Marcus Thomas) in a high stakes race over the titled 'Ice Road' to deliver a wellhead that's needed to save the men from suffocating. Starting out they're not alone, but conspiracy and espionage undermine the effort and at the finale, it's a race to the finish that defies credibility, but you don't watch this for a credible story, just the adrenaline rush. The mission is completed successfully for the most part, but not without it's share of misery for the brother truckers.

Predictable story. Poorly written script. Terrible acting. Laughable special effects.

The whole movie made me cringe with disbelief that not only Liam Neeson took part in it but also Laurence Fishburne too! The trucks and their loads defied physics and time. They were supposed to be hauling wellheads that weigh 25 tonnes yet the trucks were slinging their trailers around like they were empty and made of plastic!

The actors and direction defied time too. At one point they had to pull a truck and trailer back onto the road, unhook the trailer, dig it out of the snow, hook the trailer back up to another truck (which would've taken most of a day at least, yet the film made it look like they did it in 10 mins) and deliver the wellhead in 45 mins.

The props were so poor to the extent that towing cables which are supposed to be several inches thick, made of braided steel and freeze virtually solid in sub-zero temperatures, moved around like wet spaghetti, they were obviously made of rope.

Awful film.

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.

1. The Native American woman actress entire entire identity and dialogue in the film is about being native American. Do they insult Laurence Fishburne and African American viewers by making his character all about being African American? The makers (who are not native American) are ham-fisted "woke" attempting to show bigotry -- yet it is their own bigotry that shows through.

2. the writers have the native American character bring a semi auto handgun into Canada -- which absolutely will get you prison time no matter the reason

3. The brother's problem is not PTSD but clearly a *physical* trauma head injury. You do NOT get that kind of brain damage from PTSD.

4. The idea that the miners are going to go in a few hours to murdering each other is absurd. There many cases (of good and bad outcome) trapped miners and that is not what happens.

5. The villainy does not make any sense, except to wear wokeness on the sleeve. Exactly why would the mining and insurance companies commit mass murder to avoid paying truckers a total of $200k while setting themselves to have to pay families of dead miners probably a million a piece or $25million??? This is set in Canada in 2020s, not Canada of the 1800's or Namibia. A mining accident that kills 25 miners would be subject of a MAJOR investigation.

This is not The Usual Suspects, or even Die Hard 1, which when you think about it was pretty absurd, but it was Great fun!

This is quite obviously a check you brain at the door action film. If you went in expecting more than a popcorn eating good fun movie, it's kind of on you on this one.

Yes, it was hilariously ridiculous when one of the evil guys flips of a cliff in pickup. Gets out without a scratch or limp, climbs a mountain with no effort and causes an giant avalanche with dynamite. That was tough to watch. About as tough as outrunning said avalanche in tractor trailers. Ok, a James Bond moment.

So, why 7 stars? I knew what I was getting into when I turned this movie on, so I just put the brain on hold, literally ate popcorn and laughed at the stupid, and enjoyed the action.

T was a fun watch for me personally. If you're looking for realism, DON"T watch movies like this. It was good fun and that's all I wanted with this one. If you're expecting realism and accurate depictions of Ice Trucking, stay away.