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Arctic (2018)
  
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Director:
Joe Penna |
COUNTRY
Iceland/USA |
GENRE
Drama/Survival |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Arctic |
RUNNING
TIME
97 minutes |
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Producer:
Chris Lemole
Tim Zajaros
Noah C. Haeussner |
Screenwriter:
Joe Penna
Ryan Morrison |
Review
Considering the successful and brilliant
All Is Lost,
this identically structured and themed film by Joe Penna comes off
as formulaic, but it's a solid, well-acted and realistic-feeling
film nonetheless. Danish star Mads Mikkelsen plays a resourceful
explorer or scientist who is stranded somewhere within the Arctic Circle
where he has taken refuge in his plane wreck and survives on ice-fishing and
snow-melting while patiently waiting for
a rescue party to come for him. After a dramatic turn of events, his stable but dire
existence turns into a race against the elements, and Penna and
Mikkelsen manage to create some intense scenes and probably more
tension than the fairly familiar
plot-structure deserves. Mikkelsen is superb in the lead.
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