Ice Soldiers
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| Directed by | Sturla Gunnarsson |
| Written by | Jonathan Tydor |
| Produced by | Jeff Sackman |
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| Edited by | Roger Mattiussi |
| Music by | Jonathan Goldsmith |
Production company | Bunk 11 Pictures[1] |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment[1] |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Ice Soldiers is a 2013 Canadian action-science fiction film directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and starring Dominic Purcell, Adam Beach and Michael Ironside.
Plot
In 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis a team of Canadian troops in the arctic capture three Soviet soldiers with super human abilities. They are examined but later break free and kill much of the troops stationed in the north. Fifty years later, a team of Canadian scientists discover them buried beneath the Arctic ice. They debate what to do with them but can never reach an agreement. When the soldiers are revived, they again go on a killing spree and kill much of the military and scientist personnel. Malraux walks through the wilderness after them when he stumbles across a Cree aboriginal who agrees to team up and fight these intruders to stop them from reaching south. They succeed in catching up to them and kill them after surviving many atrocities.
Cast
- Dominic Purcell as Malraux
- Adam Beach as TC Cardinal
- Michael Ironside as Col. Desmond Trump
- Gabriel Hogan as #1
- Camille Sullivan as Jane Frazer
- Nicu Branzea as Lobokoff
- Benz Antoine as Sgt. Joe Gibbs
- Matthew G. Taylor as Frozen #2
- Andre Tricoteux as Frozen #3
- Carinne Leduc as Juliet
- Jamie Roy as Radio Operator #1
- Raoul Bhaneja as Bates
- Kristina Nicoll as Chief Melody Ripinski
- Jason Abel as Lieutenant Ken McKenzie
- Stefen Hayes as Russian Oil Executive (Mitka Dorovich)
Production
Ice Soldiers was filmed in the Sudbury, Ontario area in 2013.[2]
Reception
Norman Wilner of Now wrote, "It's all pretty generic, and very stupid".[3] David Johnson of DVD Verdict called it "pretty much standard-issue stalking and stabbing."[4] Jay Stone of Canada.com rated it 2/5 stars and called it "a gleefully preposterous slice of B movie cheese".[5]
The film has a current 16% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
References
- ^ a b "Ice Soldiers (2013)". Baseline. Retrieved 2015-06-13 – via The New York Times.
- ^ "New era in Canadian film possible; Gunnarsson laments the state of feature filmmaking in this country". Vancouver Sun, January 24, 2014.
- ^ Wilner, Norman (2013-01-23). "Ice Soldiers". Now. Vol. 33, no. 21. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
- ^ Johnson, David (2014-03-05). "Ice Soldiers (Blu-ray)". DVD Verdict. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
- ^ Stone, Jay (2014-01-23). "Movie review: Ice Soldiers is gleeful fun from the north". Canada.com. Retrieved 2014-03-09.
External links
- Ice Soldiers at IMDb
- Ice Soldiers at AllMovie
- Ice Soldiers at the TCM Movie Database
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