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Liam Neeson fights for traction as a big-rig driver in this mildly entertaining thriller.
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Liam Neeson fights for traction as a big-rig driver in this mildly entertaining thriller.
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Liam Neeson starrer The Ice Road trailer is out Thu, May 20 2021 10:08 IST | 0 Views Actor Liam Neeson. (Image Source: IANS). Image Source: IANS May 20 : Netflix unveils the first official trailer for one of their summer action movie offerings, a snow rescue thriller titled The Ice Road, made by filmmaker Jonathan Hensleigh starring Liam Neeson in the lead role. After Liam Neeson, the film also stars Benjamin Walker, Amber Midthunder, Marcus Thomas, and Laurence Fishburne. After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a "big-rig" ice road driver (Liam Neeson) must l...
At this point in his career, we pretty much know how Liam Neeson will deal with a problem: he will punch it. He's taken down terrorists, whomped wolves and kicked kidnappers. But can he punch ice? And more importantly, should he? Find out in the trailer for The Ice Road. Jonathan Hensleigh, a man with no small experience of his own in the action arena (as a filmmaker) writes and directs this one, which finds Neeson as a big-rig ice road driver called upon to help when a remote diamond mine collapses in the wintry wastes of far northern Canada.
Speaking with EW, “It’s inspired by the French film, Wages of Fear, which is this classic French black-and-white movie,” he told the magazine. “Our film is set on frozen Lake Winnipeg, where there’s been a collapse up in the mine in Northern Canada and there’s miners trapped. Because of the weather, the only way they can transport the pieces used to extract the miners is by road and these big trucks across Lake Winnipeg.” He added, “The only thing is it’s the dead of winter, and the ice is usually eight-to-ten-feet thick, but in ours the thaw is happening so the ice is onl...