As a physically disabled person myself, it’s whatever I wouldn’t wish an actual disabled person to have to take part in this garbage even if there were an arch-nemesis. Now, research is turning up nothing, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say Marcus Thomas is neither mentally impaired nor does he suffer from aphasia. Mike’s co-workers treat Gurty as subhuman and go as far as using a slur for the mentally disabled, to which the former responds with a beatdown. The Ice Road is immediately in trouble from the get-go, as Liam Neeson’s everyday man Mike McCann can’t hold down a job because his PTSD managing Iraq war veteran aphasiac brother Gurty (Marcus Thomas) is a constant target for bullying. So even without someone like Liam Neeson attached, there’s a cool concept here ripe with potential for perilous strife and vehicular carnage, or say, Mad Max on ice. Written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh (let me put it this way, 20 minutes in, I started thinking of Michael Bay’s Armageddon, which IMDb served as a reminder that he wrote that blockbuster) has a noble goal of tipping respect to blue-collar big-rig drivers transporting a variety of items across dangerous ice roads. But, unfortunately, that’s also where anything nice there is to say ends. Starring Liam Neeson, Amber Midthunder, Benjamin Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Holt McCallany, Matt McCoy, Martin Sensmeier, Matt Salinger, BJ Verot, Bradley Sawatzky, Chad Bruce, Adam Hurtig, Bradley Sawatzky, Marshall Williams, Paul Essiembre, Arne MacPherson, Gabriel Daniels, and Jake Kennerd.Īfter a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a ‘big-rig’ ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners.įor anyone tired of watching Liam Neeson pick up guns, killing criminals, saving family members, or stopping terrorists (sometimes a combination of all three in one movie), one positive thing there is to say about The Ice Road is that it’s a refreshing way of giving the senior action star something within his late-career wheelhouse that’s about similar and different. Written and Directed by Jonathan Hensleigh.
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