Ice Road: Vengeance – Movie Review
First Reaction – Ice Road: Vengeance is late night action 101.
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh (Screenplay)
Cast
- Liam Neeson (Taken)
- Bingbing Fan (The 355)
- Marcus Thomas (Kill the Irishman)
- Grace O’Sullivan
- Saksham Sharma (Companion)
Plot: Mike travels to Nepal to scatter his late brother’s ashes on Mt. Everest. When Mike and his mountain guide encounter mercenaries on a tour bus, they are forced to fight to save themselves, the passengers, and the local villagers’ homeland.
Runtime: 1 Hour 52 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Ice Road: Vengeance starts when Mike McCann (Neeson) travels to Nepal to spread his late brother’s ashes. However, his tourist bus is held hostage by a ruthless gang of criminals trying to get a deal they want.
Mike and his guide Dhani (Fan) overcome the problem and look to continue their journey. However, they only stumble into a much more serious problem and Mike must use his experience of large vehicle driving on dangerous roads to end the battle for control.
Verdict on Ice Road: Vengeance
Recap
The movie follows Mike on his latest journey when he stumbles upon a criminal group. He must work with the locals to stop a deadly group who are trying to control the area. It takes him back to the deadly mountain roads to get the survivors out alive.
Best Parts
The intense mountain routes make for great action sequences on the edge of your seat. Elsewhere, the bigger battle for control and standing up against the bigger deadlier game takes over. It continues to bring the bigger selection of obstacles needed to overcome.
Worst Parts
There seems to be a lot of preparations for the action sequences and the criminal world is a bit too generic. The film struggles to build on the original and barely includes actual driving on icy roads.
Final Thoughts – Ice Road: Vengeance is the standard late night action movie.
