SummaryIn 1909, Denmark’s Arctic Expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) was attempting to disprove the United States’ claim to Northeast Greenland. This claim was based on the assumption that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving his crew behind with the ship, Mikkelsen embarks on a journey across ... Read More
Directed By:Peter Flinth
Written By:Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Derrick, Ejnar Mikkelsen
Against the Ice
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Mixed or Average
49
User score
Generally Favorable
6.2
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
7% Positive
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93% Mixed
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Mar 2, 2022
88
Against the Ice delivers all the delirious period drama thrills and survival horror angst that you could want from a movie with that title.
User score
Generally Favorable
53% Positive
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
33% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
14% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Mar 6, 2022
10
Excellent visual component. Nice actors. In general, this movie is great for an evening pastime.
Dec 26, 2022
9
I love slow tempo of this movie but if you don't - it's probably not for you.
Mar 3, 2022
58
Sigh. If only a good cast was enough to salvage a plodding, tedious film from the snowy wreckage.
Mar 2, 2022
50
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.
Feb 22, 2022
40
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.
Jun 20, 2022
6
The story it is based on of course is intriguing and interesting, but in movie format feels like something is missing. It feels a bit boring at times - I think they made it because the story of course is fascinating and trying to rely on it, not thinking that in movie it does mostly look like they only walking and maybe you don't feel the dramatization at times. It is decent movie, but not memorable enough, I think books it is based on would be better.
Dec 17, 2023
3
It's a very bland, uninspired survival film that is a dime a dozen. Coster-Waldau tries and, tbh, he is the only reason I even gave this a shot. There's just no substance to it.
Mar 4, 2022
3
(Mauro Lanari)
Insipid Netflix pastime produced by Kormákur who relaunches after his 2015 "Everest". It makes you regret anything filmed by Herzog with or without Kinski.
Production Company:
- Ill Kippers Productions
- RVK Studios
Release Date:Mar 2, 2022
Duration:1 h 42 m
Rating:TV-MA
Tagline:Survive the Search. Survive Each Other.
Awards
Edda Awards, Iceland
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
