Arctic (2018)

	Directed by: Joe Penna	COUNTRY Iceland/USA GENRE Drama/Survival NORWEGIAN TITLE Arctic RUNNING TIME 97 minutes
	Produced by: Chris Lemole Tim Zajaros Noah C. Haeussner
	Written by: Joe Penna Ryan Morrison

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Overgård	Mads Mikkelsen	½
Young woman	María Thelma

Review

Considering the successful and brilliant All Is Lost, this identically structured and themed film by Joe Penna comes off as formulaic, but it's a solid, well-acted and realistic-feeling film nonetheless. Danish star Mads Mikkelsen plays a resourceful explorer or scientist who is stranded somewhere within the Arctic Circle, where he has taken refuge in his plane wreck and survives on ice-fishing and snow-melting while patiently waiting for a rescue party to come for him. After a dramatic turn of events, his stable but dire existence turns into a race against the elements, and Penna and Mikkelsen manage to create some intense scenes and probably more tension than the fairly familiar plot structure deserves. Mikkelsen is superb in the lead.