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  • 2022
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2022
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary In 1909, Denmark’s Arctic Expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) was attempting to disprove the United States’ claim to Northeast Greenland. This claim was based on the assumption that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving his crew behind with the ship, Mikkelsen embarks on a journe...

Directed By: Peter Flinth

Written By: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Derrick, Ejnar Mikkelsen

  • 2022
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2022
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 42 m

Against the Ice

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
49
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 33 User Ratings
6.1
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Summary In 1909, Denmark’s Arctic Expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) was attempting to disprove the United States’ claim to Northeast Greenland. This claim was based on the assumption that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving his crew behind with the ship, Mikkelsen embarks on a journe...

Directed By: Peter Flinth

Written By: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Derrick, Ejnar Mikkelsen

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
49
7% Positive
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93% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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7% Positive
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93% Mixed
13 Reviews
0% Negative
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88
Mar 2, 2022
Against the Ice delivers all the delirious period drama thrills and survival horror angst that you could want from a movie with that title.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 2, 2022
Against the Ice is a Danish story flattened for a global audience.
By Benjamin Lee FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 33 User Ratings
6.1
48% Positive
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36% Mixed
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15% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 33 User Ratings
6.1
48% Positive
16 Ratings
36% Mixed
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15% Negative
5 Ratings

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10
Timmut
Mar 6, 2022
Excellent visual component. Nice actors. In general, this movie is great for an evening pastime.
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koen200792
Dec 26, 2022
I love slow tempo of this movie but if you don't - it's probably not for you.
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Mar 3, 2022
Sigh. If only a good cast was enough to salvage a plodding, tedious film from the snowy wreckage.
By Aurora Amidon FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 2, 2022
Veteran Danish director Peter Flinth (“Beatles” and “Nobel’s Last Will” were his) delivers a film that feels approved by its co-writer and star in terms of thoroughness, but that lumbers as it passes from one waypoint to the next in the standard “alone in the Arctic” narrative.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
42
Mar 2, 2022
Forget “The Terror,” here comes “The Tedium.”
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 2, 2022
It’s perfectly formulaic.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 22, 2022
In the end, the most remarkable thing about Against the Ice is that a real-life story of two men at the mercy of the unforgiving elements, of hunger and illness, possible attack and encroaching madness, can be so curiously deprived of tension.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
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9
RevanJJ
Mar 9, 2022
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Orukayu
Jan 25, 2023
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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6
Ralfbergs
Jun 20, 2022
The story it is based on of course is intriguing and interesting, but in movie format feels like something is missing. It feels a bit boring at times - I think they made it because the story of course is fascinating and trying to rely on it, not thinking that in movie it does mostly look like they only walking and maybe you don't feel the dramatization at times. It is decent movie, but not memorable enough, I think books it is based on would be better.
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imthenoob
Dec 17, 2023
It's a very bland, uninspired survival film that is a dime a dozen. Coster-Waldau tries and, tbh, he is the only reason I even gave this a shot. There's just no substance to it.
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Mauro_Lanari
Mar 4, 2022
(Mauro Lanari) Insipid Netflix pastime produced by Kormákur who relaunches after his 2015 "Everest". It makes you regret anything filmed by Herzog with or without Kinski.
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Production Company Ill Kippers Productions, RVK Studios
Release Date Mar 2, 2022
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating TV-MA
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Tagline Survive the Search. Survive Each Other.
Website https://www.netflix.com/title/81115160/
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Awards

Edda Awards, Iceland
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations

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