“Black Crab” (2022) / Z-View

Black Crab (2022)

Director: Adam Berg

Screenplay:  Adam Berg, Pelle Rådström  based on the novel by Jerker Virdborg

Starring:  Noomi Rapace and Jakob Oftebro

Tagline: Hope Burns Brightest in The Cold

The Overview:  Beware of Spoilers…

In a world at war, Caroline Edh (Rapace) is one of six soldiers selected for a secret mission.  The team is to skate across frozen waters where the ice is too thin for vehicles (and often people) to deliver a mysterious package to an island research base.  If Edh survives the mission she has been told she will be reunited with her missing daughter.

Black Crab has an interesting plot and the set-up looks like we’re in for a good (maybe even very good) movie.  I kept thinking, “This film is about to take off.”  We’d get cool scenes like retrieving the backpack from the woman under the ice or all the bodies frozen in the ice, but between the cool scenes were lots of shots of soldiers skating or hiding from a helicopter that could almost find them.  Bah!  The movie’s tagline is Hope Burns Brightest in the Cold.  My hope that the movie would get better was left out in the cold.

Black Crab rates 2 of 5 stars.