There's little in it that's particularly exciting - it's just the very real and raw struggle of this man to survive it's a testimony to the human will to survive even seemingly impossible situations. But Mikkelsen's portrayal of this character did draw me into the story. I would have liked a little bit more information than that. The movie simply opens - and he's just there. There was no introduction to the character Mikkelsen was playing, no explanation of how long he had been in this situation. I have to confess that the beginning of the movie was a bit of a weak point for me. He's set up the shell of the plane as a makeshift survival camp, he fishes and he eats them raw, and he falls asleep and wakes up and does it again. Mads Mikkelsen plays the lone survivor of a plane crash in the Arctic. It's a very simple story, and the basic plot has been done before. It's not every movie that can manage to feel bleak and hopeless, and yet at the same time be inspiring and beautiful - but "Arctic" pulls off that difficult and unusual combination superbly.
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