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* BittersweetEnding: More on the "sweet" side: [[spoiler:Mike and Tantoo make it to the mine with the one surviving wellhead, just in time to save the miners from suffocation. With the miners alive, they tell their side of the story, leading to Sickle getting fired and arrested. However, most of the rescue team dies during the journey, including Gurty]].
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* BittersweetEnding: More on the "sweet" side: [[spoiler:Mike and Tantoo make it to the mine with the one surviving wellhead, just in time to save the miners from suffocation. With the miners alive, they tell their side of the story, leading to Sickle getting fired and arrested. However, most of the rescue team dies Goldenrod and Gurty both die during the journey, including Gurty]].journey]].
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* BittersweetEnding: More on the "sweet" side: [[spoiler:Mike and Tantoo make it to the mine with the one surviving wellhead, just in time to save the miners from suffocation. With the miners alive, they tell their side of the story, leading to Sickle getting fired and arrested. However, most of the rescue team dies during the journey, including Gurty]].
* CorporateConspiracy: To cover up that they were responsible for bribing miners into cutting safety corners, Sickle plans to have Varnay sabotage the rescue mission so the miners die, making everything look like a tragic accident, then weather the storm of debates about workplace safety and reopen the mines.
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* CuttingCorners: The BigBad of the film is a mining corporation that decided to cut down on measures to ensure miner safety (namely, methane detectors) for the sake of keeping on mining. She said disregard ends up causing an explosion (by the miners hitting a methane pocket) and a cave-in, the Sickle mining corporation [[CorporateConspiracy is willing to take any measures to make sure this does not comes to light]]. ''[[MurderIsTheBestSolution Any]]'' measures.
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* CuttingCorners: The BigBad of the film is a mining corporation that decided to cut down on measures to ensure miner safety (namely, methane detectors) for the sake of keeping on mining. She said Said disregard ends up causing an explosion (by the miners hitting a methane pocket) and a cave-in, the cave-in. The Sickle mining corporation [[CorporateConspiracy is willing to take any measures to make sure this does not comes to light]].light. ''[[MurderIsTheBestSolution Any]]'' measures.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: After saving Gurty from drowning, Mike tries to ask him why Varnay, who's on the mining company's payroll, would be trying to sabotage the rescue mission, only to immediately realize they were ''intended'' to fail.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: At the mountain, Varnay plans to drive Tantoo's truck off a cliff to make it look like she lost control and crashed. After she escapes, he warns the henchmen chasing her and Mike not to use their guns, since even one bullet could expose that the failed rescue attempt was deliberate.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Varnay's plan to sabotage the rescue mission boils down to killing everyone involved and pass it all off as a tragic accident.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Varnay's plan to sabotage the rescue mission boils down to killing everyone involved and pass it all off as a tragic accident.
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* ThePlaceNotSoDifferentRemark: Tantoo points out to Mark how protective she is towards her brother, in the same way Mark is towards Gurty.
* ThePlace: The film's name comes from the ice road that the truckers have to brave to get to the mine.
* ThePlace: The film's name comes from the ice road that the truckers have to brave to get to the mine.
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* TeamPet: Skeeter, Gurty's pet rat.
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* ComicallySmallBribe: A rare dramatic example. Sickle Mining Corporation ordered several miners to keep quiet about their CuttingCorners measures by paying them a hundred dollars and [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse threatening to fire them if they talked about it]]. Lamprad, the miners' supervisor, is upset about the miners selling themselves out [[DisappointedByTheMotive and enraged about it being for so little]].
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* CuttingCorners: The BigBad of the film is a mining corporation that decided to cut down on measures to ensure miner safety (namely, methane detectors) for the sake of keeping on mining. She said disregard ends up causing an explosion (by the miners hitting a methane pocket) and a cave-in, the Sickle mining corporation [[CorporateConspiracy is willing to take any measures to make sure this does not comes to light]]. ''[[MurderIsTheBestSolution Any]]'' measures.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The moment Goldenrod mentions that all three rigs carry the exact same cargo for the sake of "tactical redundancy" (read: it's a borderline SuicideMission and they hope at least one makes it to the destination), you just know that two of them will be wrecked ([[spoiler:and they do: Goldenrod's rig and trailer are lost [[BlackDudeDiesFirst alongside Goldenrod]], Mike's rig loses its cargo and Tantoo's rig is destroyed with the cargo surviving]]).
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: When Tantoo's rig gets caught in the avalanche, she gets speared through the shoulder by a broken branch.
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* CutTheSafetyRope: During the trip, Goldenrod's engine seizes. While attempting to repair it, the ice beneath his trailer breaks and his leg gets trapped. Knowing he can't escape, he convinces Tantoo to sever the strap attaching him to her truck, causing him to drown but saving the other two rigs and wellheads.
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* AeirthAndBob: Mike [=McCann=] and his brother Gurty.
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* AeirthAndBob: AerithAndBob: Mike [=McCann=] and his brother Gurty.
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* AeirthAndBob: Mike [=McCann=] and his brother Gurty.
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* BadassNative: Tantoo, one of the film's {{badass driver}}s, is introduced being released from jail following a protest her people, the Cree, are staging ("We’re gonna keep doing it until you get off our land.").
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* HandicappedBadass: Gurty [=McCann=] is an ex-Marine who got aphasia from IED injuries and is good with a solid punch and [[MrFixit even better at fixing vehicles]].
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* TheDragon: Tom Varnay, the alleged "insurance representative" of Sickle's mining company who is there to "supervise" (read: sabotage) the transport [[MurderIsTheBestSolution by any means necessary]].
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Sickle is willing to let the miners die to cover up the lack of safety measures at the diamond mind.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Sickle is willing to let the miners die to cover up the lack of safety measures at the diamond mind.mine.
* DisappointedByTheMotive: When Lamprad (the trapped workers' leader) asks Mankins (the rabble rouser and the one who is connected to the CorporateConspiracy) how much did he and his fellow miners got paid to keep quiet about the lack of safety, Mankins says that $100 each. Lamprad is utterly disgusted to hear that it was such a small amount (Mankins also adds that they were all threatened with being fired as well, not that it helps him).
* DisappointedByTheMotive: When Lamprad (the trapped workers' leader) asks Mankins (the rabble rouser and the one who is connected to the CorporateConspiracy) how much did he and his fellow miners got paid to keep quiet about the lack of safety, Mankins says that $100 each. Lamprad is utterly disgusted to hear that it was such a small amount (Mankins also adds that they were all threatened with being fired as well, not that it helps him).
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Liam Neeson keeps talking with his Irish brogue with a brother that served in the Marines ([[HandicappedBadass and got aphasia from IED-caused injuries]]) and roars out in one scene "kiss my Irish ass!", implying he is an immigrant.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Mike does not likes it at all when people hurt his brother Gurty. His first scene has him knock the hell out of a {{Jerkass}} trucker who is bullying Gurty because he has aphasia (a latter scene has Goldenrod pointing out that this kind of situation has happened in, and gotten Mike fired from, several other trucking companies already). His second scene has him trying to admit Gurty to a VA hospital because they are out of work and, in his own words, "I'm not getting any younger"[[note]]Liam Neeson was 68 when the film was made[[/note]], but gets him out of the hospital and threatens to beat the crap out of the doctor when his idea to "help" Gurty is to dose the everliving crap out of him with antidepressants and opioids.
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* HardTruckin: The convoy is transporting the equipment to rescue a group of trapped miners in Canada, taking an extremely dangerous route over a frozen lake to make it before they suffocate. And complicated by a corrupt VP, Sickle, who wants the miners to die.
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* BadassDriver: The truckers are this by design (driving over frozen lakes is a very risky business), sent on a rescue mission.
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* ColdEquation: Defied. One of the miners becomes a RabbleRouser and tries to get the wounded killed and thus the rest of the survivors ([[DirtyCoward and he]]) will have more air, but the leader of the crew pulls out a Zippo and [[TakingYouWithMe threatens to blow them all up with the methane that is trapped with them]] if they try.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Sickle is willing to let the miners die to cover up the lack of safety measures at the diamond mind.
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* TimeSkip: The conclusion takes place three months later with Tantoo working as a mechanic with Mike visiting her in his new truck.
* TimeSkip: The conclusion takes place three months later with Tantoo working as a mechanic with Mike visiting her in his new truck.
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A 2021 American action thriller written and directed by Creator/JonathanHensleigh that has a team of truckers that have to bring help for people trapped in a mine collapse.
The movie stars Creator/LiamNeeson, Creator/LaurenceFishburne, Creator/BenjaminWalker, Creator/AmberMidthunder, Creator/MarcusThomas, Creator/HoltMcCallany, Creator/MartinSensmeier, Creator/MattMcCoy, and Creator/MattSalinger.
It was released on June 25, 2021 on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
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!Tropes for the film:
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Goldenrod (Fishburne) dies first as a result of an accident caused by a saboteur in a somewhat HeroicSacrifice.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine:
** Midthunder and Neeson previously worked together on ''Film/TheMarksman''.
** Walker worked with Neeson on ''Film/{{Kinsey}}''.
* {{Tagline}}: "This mission is on thin ice".
The movie stars Creator/LiamNeeson, Creator/LaurenceFishburne, Creator/BenjaminWalker, Creator/AmberMidthunder, Creator/MarcusThomas, Creator/HoltMcCallany, Creator/MartinSensmeier, Creator/MattMcCoy, and Creator/MattSalinger.
It was released on June 25, 2021 on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
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!Tropes for the film:
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Goldenrod (Fishburne) dies first as a result of an accident caused by a saboteur in a somewhat HeroicSacrifice.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine:
** Midthunder and Neeson previously worked together on ''Film/TheMarksman''.
** Walker worked with Neeson on ''Film/{{Kinsey}}''.
* {{Tagline}}: "This mission is on thin ice".
