Against The Ice Review: A Beautiful Slow Burn Set In A Frozen Wasteland

Some true stories are almost too incredible to be believed, like Denmark’s Arctic Expedition in 1909.

Led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen, the team set out to dispute the United State’s claim on Northeast Greenland.

If the team could prove that Greenland was one massive piece of land and not two separate ones, as the U.S.

believed, then the territory would remain Denmark’s.

After the ship was marooned in ice and a previous attempt to trek north failed, Mikkelsen set out to prove it himself, accompanied only by the ship’s inexperienced young mechanic, Iver Iversen (Joe Cole).

They manage to find proof but are…The post Against The Ice Review: A Beautiful Slow Burn Set in a Frozen Wasteland appeared first on /Film.

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