The Ice Road: Formulaic script a slippery slope

The Ice Road is a pretty formulaic experience, a by-the-numbers film that follows in the tyre tracks of a number of films that drove these icy roads before it. Writer director Jonathan Hensleigh gives generous nods throughout to the classic 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot thriller The Wages of Fear which saw two trucks loaded with nitroglycerine drive through remote mountainous country with the explosive needed to help extinguish some well fires burning out of control.