Black Crab Review

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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. This is a movie about six Swedish soldiers ice skating across the frozen landscape to deliver an important package during a post-apocalyptic civil war. Yes, that idea is fairly absurd. Yes, the movie treats it more seriously than the average World War II movie treats Operation Overlord. No, it doesn't hold up most of the way.

The movie comes to Netflix courtesy of Swedish director Adam Berg, in his feature film debut after a career in commercials and music videos. Noomi Rapace, of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Prometheus fame, takes the starring role as a mother turned soldier desperately seeking her missing daughter. Rescuing or reuniting with a missing child is a time-honored motivation for a lead character, but Black Crab takes the idea to an almost comical extreme.

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Black Crab doesn't feel the need to explain much, there's no good or bad side in the war. The side the audience isn't following is obliquely referred to as «the enemy», and the details of who did which war crimes are absent. It's mostly focused on the immediate human drama of its six main characters, but it does bring up the war with such frequency that the lack of detail becomes annoying. Rapace and her new team are summoned under unclear circumstances and told that they'll be ice skating an absurd distance, in the dark, behind enemy lines. They are given a package to deliver, but not told what's in it. It's hard to imagine what level of preparedness one might need to commit to that assignment, but six or seven minutes probably doesn't cut it.

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