Operasjon Arktis
Directed by:
Grethe Bøe-WaalScreenplay:
Grethe Bøe-WaalCinematography:
Gaute GunnariComposer:
Trond BjerknesCast:
Kaisa Gurine Antonsen, Leonard Valestrand Eike, Ida Leonora Valestrand Eike, Line Verndal, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Kristofer Hivju, Lars Arentz-Hansen (more)Plots(1)
Julia, a shy 13-year-old, has recently moved to a new city with her mother and eight-year-old twin siblings, Ida and Sindre. After trouble at school, Julia, Sindre, and Ida decide to visit their father and stow away on a helicopter that is supposed to fly to the city where he is stationed. When the helicopter lands and the kids disembark, they realize something is wrong. But it takes off before they can get back on, stranding them on a remote Arctic island with a limited food supply, wild animals, fierce weather, and no way to communicate with the mainland. Though the twins look to Julia for survival skills, all three must rise to the challenge and work together in hopes of being rescued. (Sundance Film Festival)
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Action Arctic is exactly the exemplary Norwegian pseudo-blockbuster that Norwegians shoot, but which always incredibly annoys me with that massively stupid Hollywood copy. Shots of the snow-covered landscape are of course beautiful. In my opinion, if you put someone in the middle of the Norwegian wilderness with a camera in hand and ask them to film something, they will always shoot such shots that you will just stare at and want more. Norwegians, however, play with them enough to be annoying, because in terms of the story, this is a childish adventure so naive and stupid that it will make you angry from the beginning and not even the end will help.
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This film was made with the ambition consisting in “let’s shoot a bunch of captivating shots of the Arctic and throw them into a children’s movie because those sell well”. The faulty logic and causality trip up every scene. I like children’s movies, but this one doesn’t deserve attention despite its spectacular concept and the money spent on it.
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