2013 · action · sci-fi
Ice Soldiers
Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson1h 35m2013
A scientist discovers the bodies of three frozen genetically modified Russians buried in the Canadian North. Upon thawing them out he realizes he has unleashed a deadly threat to Western society and must stop them at all costs.
Our read: Ice Soldiers (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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