(2026 dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky) Date Seen: September 3 2026
When this movie commits fully to action it becomes remarkably effective: the crew of villains are colorful like comic-book goons & Joel Kinnaman and Danny Huston remain reliably persuasive as (respectively) classical leading man and heavy. But I keep noticing this weird thing happening in many action movies lately where the editing only pops awake whenever people start firing guns & then gets positively clunky when characters actually have to talk. You can almost smell a meddling producer in the cutting room snapping & repeating “pick up the pace." ICEFALL also has a glaring visual smudge on what would've otherwise been it's main action centerpiece. They spent all this money to put actors on an enormous sound stage so the frozen Montana lake could end in an artificial blurry blue-screen mess. It’s just ice and snow. That's a white floor & a horizon. With a fraction of this budget FALL (2022) was able to at least give off the illusion that characters might be at the mercy of outdoor elements (Anyone remember TREMORS 6's natural light desert-in-a-snow-wig trick?). I know I’m being obsessive & annoying about this, but I had been watching a visually gritty wilderness thriller & then all of a sudden ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2002) was trying to sneak up in the background.. It's not a realism thing; It's a tonal & optical consistency thing.
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