The Ice Road (2021)
1/10
Bizarrely stupid. Just strangely bad on every level.
25 June 2021
It's hard to describe without actually experiencing it, but the dialog in this is one of the strangest things I've ever seen. Imagine if a 5 year Chinese child wrote an entire script for a movie and then a 5 year old Finnish child with some secondhand knowledge of English translated the script and it was phoned in by actors needing a quick paycheck. There's an actual line where an adult explains to another adult what the word "redundant" means. Not in context or for comedy. It's just a random, serious dialog exchange in the film. I've honest to God never seen anything I could compare this to. This not "bad" dialog, it's almost as if the script was auto-generated by a learning computer.

I also don't think anyone involved in trucking across ice roads was involved in this because even from even a basic layman's understanding of the physics all their decisions are dumb..like really dumb. I wish I could say this reminds me of "The core" but it's far far stupidier. This not cheap or lowrent...its compellingly broken. This is Ed wood bad. I suggest waiting until MST3K or rifftrax gets ahold of this. They are going to have a field day.
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