Arctic

2019 • 98 minutes
4.1
97 reviews
90%
Tomatometer
PG-13
Rating
Eligible
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About this movie

Mads Mikkelsen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Doctor Strange) delivers an engrossing tour-de-force performance as Overgård, a resourceful yet increasingly desperate man stranded in a remote, snow-covered wilderness. After a plane crash in an icy wasteland, Overgård must live by his wits as he waits for help to arrive. But when a long-awaited rescue effort fails, he faces a life-or-death decision: remain in the relative safety of his camp and hope to be found, or embark on an arduous trek that may be the only hope for both him and a critically injured stranger. Critics are calling this captivating, white-knuckle film "chilling and thrilling, heart-wrenching and heart-lifting" (Los Angeles Times).
Rating
PG-13

Ratings and reviews

4.1
97 reviews
Diamond Jim
May 8, 2019
very boring - it would be more exciting to be stuck in the arctic after a plane crash then to watch this movie. well shot but it's in a scenic location so unless you filmed it with a potato it would be visually striking. the lady should've gotten eaten by the polar bear, that would have been lit.
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Ken Roche
September 21, 2023
Arctic – Offers Some Challenges Writer/Director Joe Penna’s quite powerful debut feature is helped immensely by Tomas Örn Tómasson’s stylish location cinematography, and Mads Mikkelsen is perfect in the lead. It’s a classic slow-burn survival story played out within inhospitable and constantly threatening landscapes. It also offers some helpful survivor tips (but avoids some also)
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Evanthe Lindenau
May 19, 2019
It fell way short of what it could have been. I fell asleep several times it was so slow. It needed more tense moments and more eminent danger. The acting was superb so that saved it for me but l barely made it to the end and then wanted to get my time back. Please put this great actor in something where he has more lines and action or at least more actors and drama to play off of because he rocked !
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