This new one is a sequel to 2021’s The Ice Road, which was sacrificed to Netflix in the thick of the Covid pandemic, and was a hit for the streamer; Neeson reunites with journeyman director Jonathan Hensleigh, and pairs with Chinese action star Fan Bingbing for another wrong place/wrong time/right guy story. We get a TANTALIZING scene in which Mike opens his laptop and types into the search bar and buys a plane ticket to Kathmandu, and before he awakens in the window seat with a perfect view of Everest, we’re privy to the local drama, where a capitalist cretin (Mahesh Jadu) with a scar on his face is met with resistance to his plan to build a dam, and starts offing the people standing in his way. There’s a scene early in the film when a shitty TSA worker forces Mike to put Gurty’s ashes in a plastic container, so he ventures into a bathroom stall to transfer the cargo; he spills some on the rim of a toilet and brushes the ashes into the box and mumbles, “Sorry bro.” This is a clear indication that we shouldn’t take any of this seriously whatsoever, and in fact plays like Neeson’s rehearsal for The Naked Gun reboot.
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Published at: 2025-09-15 22:30:00
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