Parents' Guide to Ice Road: Vengeance

Unfortunately, this film isn't great. A fair amount of Ice Road: Vengeance feels like it came out of an AI brain, including the horrible title. It's wild to think whoever makes these decisions looked at this movie's title and thought, "yep, solid title." Does the film have anything to do with icy roads? Not really. Does it have to do with vengeance? Again, not really. Liam Neeson plays yet another good man with a specific set of skills that allow him to fight off an army (and dozens of police) of "bad guys" on thin mountain cliffside roads who are trying to kill him and the innocent people he now protects. So "vengeance" isn't really involved anywhere in the film. And some of the roads are naturally a little icy because the setting is Nepal and the Himalayas and snowy Mount Everest, but again, there are no scenes of motor vehicles slipping or sliding dangerously on icy roads.

To make matters worse, laughable dialogue ("Come on! You're my little brother! Of course I care for you!"), glaring logical issues (characters somehow don't hear gunfire or screams from a hundred yards away), improbable moments to serve the plot (moving a character shot in the chest), and the tired White savior narrative of saving a bunch of Nepalese people from a villain who has a literal scar on his face. A few of the fight scenes are mildly entertaining, but there's absolutely nothing here most audiences haven't already seen hundreds of times.