Mike and Tantoo arrive just in time to rescue the miners. After crossing, the truck starts sliding backwards, and Gurty is crushed trying to prevent the truck from falling. Meanwhile, Tantoo and Gurty cross a bridge not designed for the weight of the truck, and barely make it over before the bridge collapses. Mike knocks Varnay out, accelerates the rig, and jumps out, causing it to fall through the surface and kill Varnay. After a struggle, Mike attempts to drive away, but Varnay climbs onto the rig. Mike boards Varnay's rig and both fall from the truck. Varnay pursues them in Tantoo's rig and begins ramming them. They uncouple her trailer, and drive off with the wellhead. Mike and Gurty escape, but Tantoo is hit by snow and wounded by a branch. Varnay survives and creates an avalanche with dynamite. Mike and Gurty arrive and kill the Katka contractors pursuing Tantoo.Īfter Tantoo runs out of fuel due to Varnay disconnecting her fuel equalizer, he catches up to her, but Mike crashes his rig into Varnay's truck, sending it off a cliff. Varnay prepares to kill Tantoo, but is bitten by Gurty's pet rat Skeeter, enabling Tantoo to throw him out of the rig. Sickle instructs Varnay to get rid of Tantoo and the last remaining wellhead by making it seem Tantoo lost control and veered off a cliff. Varnay meets with Sickle, telling him Mike and Gurty have died. The winch snaps, causing Gurty and the trailer to fall into the water, but Mike rescues Gurty. While winching their trailer out of the ice, Gurty tries to warn Mike the winch will fail, but Mike starts the machine anyway. Varnay watches the explosion from afar, believing that Mike and Gurty are dead. He rigs Mike's truck with dynamite and drives off with Tantoo, but Mike and Gurty escape from the trailer and throw the dynamite away just before it explodes. Varnay is revealed to have been the one who sabotaged Goldenrod's rig, and knocks Tantoo unconscious. After the men right the trucks, Varnay locks Mike and Gurty in the back of their rig. When they continue to interrogate her, she pulls out a pistol, but Gurty disarms her and ties her up. Varnay convinces Mike to accuse Tantoo of sabotaging Goldenrod's rig, but Tantoo reveals her brother Cody is amongst the miners. In an attempt to flee the rapidly approaching pressure wave and cracking ice, the remaining two trucks fishtail and roll over, stopping the pressure wave. Knowing he can't escape, he convinces Tantoo to sever the strap attaching him to the truck, causing him to drown but saving the other two rigs and wellheads. While attempting to repair it, the ice beneath his trailer breaks and his leg gets trapped. During the trip, Goldenrod's engine seizes. The team leaves for the mine with three wellheads. Meanwhile, the miners are communicating with Katka executives using Tap code, and Katka General Manager Sickle transmits a message that they plan to free the men by blasting a tunnel. $200,000 is split between the four truckers, which will be redistributed among the survivors if anyone dies. Also joining the rescue mission is actuary Varnay, responsible for insurance risk assessment for Katka, the company which owns the mine. He hires McCann and Gurty, along with a young Indigenous woman known only as Tantoo. Jim Goldenrod, another trucker, agrees to lead a rescue mission to deliver wellheads to the mine. Mike hears about ice road truckers needed in Winnipeg, and they apply. Mike McCann and his brother Gurty, an Iraq War veteran suffering from PTSD and aphasia, work for a trucking company in North Dakota until Mike punches another trucker for making fun of Gurty’s cognitive disability, and they are both fired. The film received mixed reviews from critics.Īn explosion at a mine in Manitoba traps 26 miners. The film was digitally released by Netflix in the United States and Canada, and by Amazon Prime Video in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2021. It follows a team of truck drivers on a dangerous mission over frozen lakes and winter roads to deliver a crucial component to save workers trapped in a collapsed diamond mine. It marks Hensleigh's first film since 2011's Kill the Irishman. The film stars Liam Neeson as Mike McCann, and Laurence Fishburne as Jim Goldenrod with Benjamin Walker, Amber Midthunder, Marcus Thomas, Holt McCallany, Martin Sensmeier, Matt McCoy, and Matt Salinger in supporting roles. The Ice Road is a 2021 American action thriller film written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh.
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