Film Review: Liam Neeson leads the enjoyably dopey fun of The Ice Road

"...written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh, The Ice Road is a snowbound rollercoaster of a neo-Western ride..."

The Ice Road. Picture: Allen Fraser/Netflix

Liam Neeson stars in The Ice Road (12A), playing Mike McCann, an aging trucker with ‘not a lot of tread left on his tires'. But when a methane pocket explodes in a diamond mine in Winnipeg, trapping a host of miners underground, it’s the old dog for the hard road: Mike is hired to transport a 30-ton drill from North Dakota into Canada, across an already melting frozen lake.

What could possibly go wrong?