Black Crab

In the midst of an unspecified conflict in Sweden, Caroline Edh (Noomi Rapace) is a volunteer soldier and things are not going well for her side.

Diverted from her next assignment Caroline is put in a team expected to deliver a package across the frozen sea, which is held by the enemy. All of them are people chosen for being good at cross-country skating and survival.

They are told this is a do or die mission that may end the war but none of them are entirely clear why or how they're expected to accomplish it.

This is an oddity in that it's a modern war movie with nothing fantastic or weird added to it. The group make their way across a frozen landscape peppered with the ruins of ordinary contemporary stuff like dead wind turbines and a wrecked ferry.

Its quite grim in parts with pretty standard war movie stuff like doubting orders, conflicted loyalties and potential traitors along the way.

Biggest surprise for me was a "hey I've been there" moment as the final sections are shot in the same civil defence bunker that was used to stage the LARP Lotka-Volterra a few years ago. I vividly remember the stone hewn corridors from it.

Nothing exceptional but solidly done, 7/10.