Black Crab

2022 - 3 - 18

Netflix’s Black Crab makes ice skating a crucial post-apocalypse skill (unknown)

Noomi Rapace stars in Black Crab, a Swedish import action movie about a team of soldiers on a special mission, skating across sea ice in the dark.

Her superiors exploit this pain as motivation, and their promise of an easy end to the war should her mission succeed is suspicious, to say the least. The quest is simple and the threats are tangible. Caroline, insubordinate and volatile, is seen in flashback scenes trying to survive the early days of the war with her daughter Vanja, who is ripped away from her. The visual appeal and the inherent tension are clear, and to be fair, Berg realizes both with panache. They’re almost totally cut off, and their only hope to turn the tide is to get two mysterious canisters to a research station on a remote island. In an opening flashback, a car radio mentions rioting, “both sides” blaming each other, and the start of a civil war.

Black Crab (unknown)

Black Crab is more than sufficiently gripping to make you want to see it through.

And sure enough, the sight of this hard-bitten half-dozen in silhouette, shushing across black stretches of ice, sometimes pausing to peer at the dozens of drowned corpses underneath them (climate change figures here because of course it does). Edh points out early on that this is nothing more or less than a suicide mission, but she’s given reason to try to make it something else—the hope of being reunited with her daughter, who, she is told, was found in a refugee camp of sorts. I have to admit I laughed out loud when the recruiter said, “It could be navigated by soldiers with ice skates.” Okay! Then again, you know, in Anthony Mann’s 1965 “The Heroes of Telemark” the brave marauders led by Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris got to their Nazi target on skis, and that movie was based on a true story and is a stealth war-picture classic (as well as an influence on Christopher Nolan’s “Inception”), so why not? Cut to a few years later and Edh, as she’s referred to through most of the movie, is a soldier traveling to receive orders. Yikes! This character’s ultimate mettle and motivation is one of the factors contributing to the movie’s spills and chills. In this bleak, tense sci-fi war movie from Sweden, “Black Crab” refers to the name of a team recruited for a potentially victory-snagging probable suicide mission in a not-to-distant-future war to end all wars, or all of civilization itself. The title “Black Crab” makes me think of the meal, and it’s annoying.

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Possibly. Or she was told her daughter died at the hands of the enemy, and this was the best way to inflict revenge. She believes her daughter is dead, which is the quickest way to be reunited with her. Suddenly, she pulls a grenade out, and we see both vials are taped to the weapon! The only problem is they did not tell her the truth. If she completes the mission, they will reunite her with her daughter, located in a refugee camp. As one of the operation’s best soldiers, they trust her and give her the motivation she needs.

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However, Rapace’s character Caroline Edh has an ulterior motive as she has been promised her long-missing daughter who is waiting for her on the other side. Black Crab was produced by Indio, which is a boutique Swedish production house for film, television and short-form content. Netflix’s latest gripping thriller has skated on to the platform.

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Nordt asked her to think of her daughter, which inspired Caroline to jump off the cliff and blow herself up. She strapped the vials to a stolen grenade, leaving Nordt and the guards nervous. Caroline would later ask him to help her destroy the virus, although he reamed her for not letting him dump it in the ocean when he stole the canisters. Disguised in hazmat suits, Nylund tried to get them on a chopper, but a wounded Caroline realized her time was up. The military base found her and healed her, taking the canisters to the lab for mass production. Vanja was never recovered -- they faked it to motivate Caroline because she was their best chance to get the virus across the lake.

Black Crab Review (Game Rant)

Netflix's new Swedish action-thriller takes the tale of a military squad ice-skating for miles behind enemy lines and makes it forgettable.

One of the soldiers kills himself to avoid participating in the end of the world. Bad enough that the main character is pursuing the death of all things for selfish reasons, but she spends her first action scene gunning down the poor and desperate. The main character soldiers on and unquestioningly sacrifices herself and her cohorts to deliver the plague. One of the biggest weak points of the film is its main characters. As the journey goes on, members of the team die, but it's hard to miss them. Those who have heard of Black Crab probably don't know much about it, as the trailers and Netflix description don't give away much.