Prime Video’s Battle of the Worlds nonetheless stands as one of many lowest-rated strikes on Rotten Tomatoes of the 12 months — even when it has heroically pulled itself as much as 4% from its humble beginnings at 0%. Maybe the pungent legacy of that sci-fi adaptation can clarify why Prime Video’s primary film on the worldwide streaming charts isn’t on Prime Video in any respect in the USA, with Amazon having offered Liam Neeson’s awful Ice Street: Vengeance to Netflix as an alternative. The film at present has simply 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, so it’s arduous accountable the corporate for not eager to have the unique streaming rights to two of 2025’s worst films.
Naturally, although, Ice Street: Vengeance is now the highest film on Netflix in the USA, proving as soon as once more that most of the people’s requirements are fairly low on the subject of streaming motion films with a recognizable star. Was Prime Video fallacious to let Netflix have it? It’s unattainable to say how a lot anyone hit film on a streaming platform is value, since there’s no solution to know if anybody on the earth is signing up for Netflix simply to observe Ice Street: Vengeance, but it surely appears enormously unlikely that it will go on to turn into a cultural touchstone the way in which KPop Demon Hunters has. Or possibly we’ll look extraordinarily foolish in a couple of months when everybody’s going wild for the sing-a-long model of Ice Street: Vengeance.
What Is ‘Ice Street: Vengeance’?
As steered by the title, Ice Street: Vengeance is a sequel to Neeson’s 2021 film The Ice Street, wherein he performed a Liam Neeson-type character tasked with transporting tools throughout a harmful ice street so as to avoid wasting trapped miners. The sequel takes place in Nepal and doesn’t actually contain ice roads in any respect, no less than within the sense {that a} literal ice street is constructed on frozen water and is subsequently a distinct factor than an icy street or an ice-covered street. Which means the one actual solution to set this other than each different Liam Neeson motion film is that he performs an ice-road truck driver on this one who doesn’t drive on any ice roads.
And whereas we’re speaking about issues that Ice Street: Vengeance will not be, it’s value declaring that this film and its predecessor are unrelated to the 2019 Liam Neeson motion film Chilly Pursuit. In that film, he performed a snowplow driver getting vengeance for the homicide of his son. They’re all additionally unrelated to The Gray, which occurred in a chilly local weather, but it surely was about him preventing wolves. They’re all additionally unrelated to Neeson’s upcoming horror-comedy Chilly Storage, which can also be about chilly temperatures, however not vengeance or vehicles. And none of this has something to do with the 2017 film The Snowman (Mister Police, I gave you all of the clues), which Liam Neeson wasn’t even in.
However maybe probably the most ridiculous factor about Ice Street: Vengeance — a Prime Video unique that’s solely on Netflix in the USA that additionally doesn’t characteristic ice roads — is that it hit the highest spot on Netflix just a bit greater than a month after the theatrical launch of Liam Neeson’s greatest film in years: The Bare Gun. It looks as if he nonetheless has the juice, when it comes to performing and choosing initiatives, he simply must put it to use extra typically. Then once more, that is the highest film on whichever streaming service it’s on, relying on the place you’re, so what’s stopping him from making a 3rd Ice Street film about driving a truck in area? Perhaps all of us have to cease encouraging him.
- Launch Date
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June 27, 2025
- Runtime
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113 minutes
- Director
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Jonathan Hensleigh
- Writers
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Jonathan Hensleigh
- Producers
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Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt, Eugene Musso, Lee Nelson, Shivani Rawat, David Tish
Fan Bingbing
Dhani Yangchen
Grace O’Sullivan
Starr Myers
