With Liam Neeson behind the wheel it was a silly movie that I could tolerate. Though, it wasn’t a bad debut for the mouse who is a promising talent.

This is maybe a time-killer movie with a kind of OK story but bad CGI. I expected more at every scene like the mine, the road, during all fights and action. The movie is not a typical Liam action movie that we remember. I feel that old Liam is getting to the bottom faster than I imagined.

When thinking about who to partner a Neeson character up with, they come up with someone like "Gurty"? That is quite laughable.
What an awful, senseless movie. Acting, even for a Liam Neeson movie, is garbage.
Exposition is as little as possible and as much on the nose as possible.
Villains of this movie are cardboard characters, no depth, no charisma, no background.
They only exist to give this movie some suspense. But since they are depthless characters, you do not care at all.
Fishburne was in this for a quick paycheck, he gets killed off very early on.
Several scenes make no sense, like the end scene, or the scene after the bridge collapsed. You are pressed for time? Let's take a look at the collapsed bridge, because we need to [spoiler]kill one more character off that has no impact at all[/spoiler].
Fighting scenes are lame, Neeson's age is showing hard in this.
The cutting is all over the place. Directing? Doesn't seem to exist in this movie.
While other mediocre movies of Neeson are a nice time waster, this is just an entire waste of time.

Interesting for people who love to watch trucks. And ice circumstances. And other then that it's boring. And predictable.

There were some really really dumb parts in this, but it was entertaining. Wasn’t one of Liam’s best but he still has this aura about him that made it worthwhile.

So the bad guys are cardboard-characters - doesn't make much difference.

The female protagonist actually lost a round against a male antagonist where we get to ask ourself how she gets out of that (didn't expect that to happen in a movie with A-Listers this day and age) - well done!

Opposed to others I think the pair of brothers works really well - [spoiler] damn I cried when he died. Which was a bit unexpected. I half expected that Mike dies and Tantoo pairs up with Mike buying the Rig he always wanted. [/spoiler]

[spoiler] Gurty's death leaves me a bit shattered, so the character building definitely worked better than in most stuff that comes out these days.
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[spoiler] And yeah, like others pointed out - the mine collapse itself isn't important, thats just background noise, like most NPCs in a videogame: necessary for ambience only. [/spoiler]


In conclusion I give this 8/10, it stirred real feelings and I can count the movies who did that in recent time with my fingers.

Weak movie. if it was not for Liam Neeson (Big fan). I would have skipped this one.

A decent Liam popcorn movie for an afternoon entertainment at home.

Its not a great film but for all its faults, its still entertaining thanks to a typically dependable Liam Neeson performance.

Do not watch, I repeat, DO NOT WATCH

Not worth the senseless drama [spoiler]and death[/spoiler]

I really enjoyed this! Fine acting, decent action with some edge-of-the-seat tension. Congrats to all the crew for filming in those conditions and keeping the atmosphere so well. Your typical story of greed but well told and heart warming in all the right places. I actually cared about the actors and the outcome so was really happy with the result. Solid entertainment and worth watching… 7/10.

Mediocre boring and very predictable you can figure the whole thing out in the first 10 min

I really liked the idea.
The acting was superb.
But this could have been so much better without the endless and boring fight scenes. Unfortunately, the second half got pretty boring.
Overall it is an okay action movie for a one time watch.

Liam Neeson can do no wrong for me, and again, I thought this was awesome too!

I really enjoyed this. Don't understand all the criticism. Everything looked plausible to me for a casual viewing. Don't need to go into details. It's like saying Star Wars is a bad movie because there is no sound and explosions in space. Consider this a fantasy movie with ice and trucks. Have fun.

My only real big problem with this movie was [spoiler]killing his brother. Like it's the right thing to do. He is only good when he is dead. He has no future. Totally unnecessary and offensive[/spoiler]

Like getting in a car in winter and waiting for things to heat up.

Bad WTFs, bad CGI, and bad science means I give this one the cold shoulder.

Insulting, producers think the audience are a bunch of retards, chains appear and disappear from the wheels, just hold the gas can against the truck, what the diesel magically flows up and out of the gas can? To much stupid shit to mention.

So, when is Liam Neeson retiring from action movies? He said he would a while ago.

The movie itself, very predictable and stupid, not the best kind of stupid for these types of movies. The visual effects looked so awful and unconvincing I questioned if I was watching a Sci Fi channel movie. The directing wasn’t anything notable and the writing was so horrendous, ridiculous situations and none of it was believable. I had a hard time finishing this one.

I can't believe that both Liam Neeson and Laurence Fishburne agreed to be in this.

'The Ice Road' is cold and boring.

As a former OTR driver I can tell you LOTS of corners were cut to make this movie, but "HELL" it's "Liam Neeson" who cares?

This is a fairly good movie. Worth a few minutes of your time.

How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!

We needed Liam Neeson as a Ice road driver again I guess after Cold Pursuit. Though that was more like a wannabe Guy Ritchie movie. This you almost expect them to say it was based on a true story.

Meh! Boring Sunday done cleaning the house. Walked the dog. Waiting for bed time. Not a bad watch.

Serviceable Liam Neeson thriller that has an absolutely awful conclusion, it's as if they ran out of time.