As an audience you end up feeling for Gurty and what he has to endure in life as a result of being a war veteran. First off Hensleigh creates the McGann Brothers as a duo that you can’t help but love.

While most would describe The Ice Road as a simple action film there is so much to love about the film. Of course just like all of the greatest action films of the 80s and 90s The Ice Road needs more suspense than can be generated from melting ice so soon Hensleigh throws in a secondary storyline that soon makes it clear to the McGann boys that not only do they have the road itself as an enemy but that someone is also trying to sabotage their journey. As a screenwriter Hensleigh captures that same essence here – the story itself is basic but he is a skilled enough writer to know the perfect obstacles to put in the path of his heroes. Think about movies like Cliffhanger and Point Break and you soon realise that the secret to those films working was their believability.

To be honest The Ice Road feels like a 1980s or 1990s action film, and I don’t mean that in a negative sense. The only issue is that the team are going to have to drive on ice roads so far into the ice truck season that many have started to thaw out meaning that the roads are almost impossible to navigate. In it Neeson ( Taken ) plays Mike McGann a skilled ice road trucker who finds himself unemployed after sticking up for his mentally scarred and handicapped brother Gurty (Marcus Thomas – You Kill Me ) who in his own right is a talented mechanic.ĭesperate for work Mike and Gurty agree to join forces with trucking company owner Jim Goldenrod (Laurence Fishburne – The Matrix ) and fellow ice road trucker, Tantoo (Amber Midthunder – Hell or High Water ), in a desperate bid to get emergency machinery into far north Canada that will free a group of trapped miners. The film is called The Ice Road and it is the latest creation from director/screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh, a man who has been the creative force behind films such as Armageddon and The Punisher. Well I’m not sure whether or not he found sitting in a comfy chair in front of a fire not to his liking or if the acting bug was just too much of a pull but Neeson is back on the big screen this week in a film that sees him jumping off semi-trailers and once again wrestling bad guys.

Liam nelson nonstop