Against the Ice

A hard-core first half is deflated by sleepy melodrama and a formulaic script in this adventure film about the Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen.

The saintly younger man, however, puts up with his captain when he experiences visions of his girlfriend, and Flinth confusingly skips past swaths of time to cram in more moments of brotherly friction. Dog lovers beware: In one scene, a fazed Iversen must sacrifice one of the pups to provide food for the rest. Dashing patriot that he is, Mikkelsen refuses to abandon the cause, though none of his men care to join him aside from Iver Iversen (Joe Cole), a chipper volunteer who doesn’t know what he’s in for.

The Gist: Ejnar Mikkelsen (Coster-Waldau) clods back to the ice-locked vessel Alabama with Jorgensen (Gisli Orn Gardarsson) stretched out on the dogsled.

There’s nothing unexpected out there for Ejnar and Iver to run into – just wind, wind, wind, a polar bear, wind, more wind and even more wind followed by wwwwinnndd, and the polar bear scenes stir up more unintended laughter than a sense of peril. For Ejnar and Iver, the days plod on uber-dramatically or uber-undramatically, and there isn’t a whole lot of meat on their bones personality-wise; they talk vaguely about missing women but otherwise don’t reveal much about themselves besides a Iver’s slightly unexpected durability and Ejnar’s slightly unexpected irrationality. It’s the type of journey where you will have to kill one of the dogs to feed the other dogs. It’s his patriotic duty to go back for it, but considering Jorgensen’s fate, he has no takers for a partner – except Iver Iverson (Joe Cole), a greenhorn who’s never earned his stripes as a selfless explorer who might also have to be a complete moron to embark on a grueling months-long expedition for the sake of the accuracy of some lines on a map. Ejnar is the Alabama’s captain, and he and his crew are on a rescue mission. He found the explorers’ bodies, but not their data, which, per adventurer protocol, is stuck in a pile of rocks somewhere on a sheet of ice.

The 'Game of Thrones' actor co-wrote and stars in the film, which tells the story of real-life explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen.

Following in the footsteps of a failed expedition, Mikkelsen’s mission was more than just vanity. And he has so little respect for the idea that someone would know better.” "Here it was very clear. “That was insane. You need each other," he says. “I like these stories about going to the unknown. “We shot in a hurricane. "All of us have this curiosity: what’s around the next corner? It’s also his weakness because he’s so single-minded. We were evacuated from a glacier. Perhaps it takes a certain insanity to get a film like this in the can — and to understand the mentality of a character like Ejnar Mikkelsen. In this case, Flinth and his team shot in Iceland and Greenland, a country with little in the way of infrastructure to accommodate film crews.

This article discusses the ending of the Netflix film Against the Ice, so will contain major spoilers. In 1909, explorers Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nicolaj.

He starts to see visions of his lover from back home, and it comes down to Iver to look out for the both of them so that they might stand a chance of living long enough to see the arrival of a rescue crew. However, nearly three years after they first set off on their journey, Ejnar and Iver’s luck takes a positive turn. Little do they know that these little improvised huts are to become their home for the next few years when luck fails to fall in their favor on multiple occasions.