“Against the Ice” presents all drama sensations of periods of deliriousness and sincerity of the survival that you want from the film with the title. In a very short time, Coster-Waldau and Joe Derrick founded their story – an adaptation of the Arctic Ejnar Ejnar Mickelsen Memoar Mikkelsen two against ice – as a kind of worst boy adventure story and might happen, especially when you expect it.
Are Ejnar Mikkelsen and Iver Iversen based on real explorers? How did they die?
Coster-Waldau plays Mikkelsen, a haunted sea captain who led Mechanic Mechanic Ivers (Joe Cole) with a dangerous journey to Cairn (or “a stack of stones that could be seen from afar,” as a helpful character) far from their ship, Alabama, and his crew. Buried in Cairn is a written record of the findings of the last Danish expedition. The valuable document shows uncertainly, that Danish explorer, and not American adventurers Robert Peary, have found the northernmost border of Greenland, which in turn suggested that the US “did not have a claim” in the Arctic, as explained by Mikkelsen. to Iversen.
You may be wondering how or why to prove that this extremely particular claim could be the goal of action of the Arctic adventure on two men who have to kill a sleigh dog or two to survive. Coster-Waldau immediately develops the expectations of viewers through a campty and economic dialogue, as when another explorer warns Iversen that he should not be brought to the dogs, because sometimes if the worst is the worst You must “pull the worst dog” and “feed it to others.” Shortly after, Iversen opines without hesitation that “once you learn to trust your lead dog, everything is in place.”
This type of garily ironic declaration could put you on board well before the first dog incident. You could also be hooked and/or desperate to stop looking after the suddenly non-density secondary incident, which adds a hilarious edge in innocent apparent dialogue, as when Mikkelsen says that “Denmark will thank you one day, Iver Iviver “And then announces after they find the cairn they are looking for, they returned to Alabama, then at home. It is long before the ice cubes settle in the beards of Iversen and Mikkelsen. After that, they stand as normal men of the beginning of the century by talking about their first sexual experiences or if they ever consider cannibalism.
To be fair, “against the ICE” presents some tense and well estimate play pieces, as well as atmospheric and beautiful outdoor photography, some of which shot up in Greenland. Cole and Coster-Waldau are also both terrible in their respective roles, even if they are not the real stars of the film. Well, Coster-Waldau, obviously, is found, given the role of multiple scripts in which this film is completed. But not by the performance of him in the camera. As a screenwriter, Coster-Waldau combines all the scenes with the kind of playful and surprising details that surely delight fans of pocketbooks and/or suspense of film B.
Do not let the medium-sized budget deceive you: “Against the ICE”, tells him constantly what kind of film is and not only when the polar bears are animated by computer attack or when the prolonged, but the actor of character abruptly, the actor Charles Dance appears, as a Danish cultural minister, and makes pronouncements about the fate of Iversen and Mikkelsen of the security of a conference room. The dance makes a meal of the word “lieutenant” and also gives a very good monologue, since when he describes the “most important task” of an explorer “. Obviously,” the blood, sweat and tears “are involved.
The days pass in a burst of stringent intertitles and clearly delimited and possibly, you start anticipating ghosts of mirage type, like hot air balloons and car blocked, as much as the gonzo dialogue, like the cannibal conversation mentioned above. “Against the ice” is not a horror movie, you may not be ready for Iversen and Mikkelsen to conclude that “if my hands were removed before dying” – “Yes, I could eat very good. ” The polar bears and the perilous are also trendy, but “against the ice” allow you to ask yourself for how long you will have to wait for the next terrible and surreal development. The answer is usually not very long at all.
