ICE-FALL from ARCLIGHT films (2025). You can buy or rent this online right now.
Synopsis: A young Native American game warden (Ani) and an infamous poacher (Harlan) are forced to team up to prevent a group of criminals from retrieving millions of dollars from a crashed plane beneath a frozen lake.
The synopsis is great. But - this film is a bad "cliche" from start to finish. The story is set in the cold winter mountains of Montana. Ani (Carla Jade Myers) claims to be a Blackfoot Indian. Harlen (Joel Kinnaman) is a mysterious poacher who is haunted by the passing of his Indian girlfriend.
Ani and Harlen meet up on a frozen lake which breaks before the spring thaw. He has one black case full of money that he found in this lake near a crashed plane. It is under water which also carries more cases of money. Five months ago. A group of thieves stole this money and put electronic trackers on each black case. These thieves show up and receive help from an Indian partner who was part of their group. He has no name who became a preacher.
There are two big holes in this story. After five months. Why didn't this Indian thief search for that plane? He is supposed to be this excellent tracker too. Also, the leader of the thieves has a GPS on his iPhone. Why didn't he just track the plane when the ice breaks? All of the characters are not fleshed out either. Especially Harlen who is the male lead. He takes a back seat for most of the movie.
I was expecting a cat-and-mouse thriller on the frozen ice. Because that is what is shown to us in the excellent movie trailer. Don't get me started on Harlen and his Blackfoot Indian vision quest. The Native-Indigenous cliches are laughable too. C'mon.!!... A peace-pipe? Really?
Buy online at your own risk.
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