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Mar 18, 2022 · 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.
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52% Tomatometer 31 Reviews. 53% Audience Score 250+ Ratings. BLACK CRAB is a Swedish action thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world torn apart by war. During a long, harsh...
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- Noomi Rapace
- Adam Berg
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Black Crab is really two movies. The first -- the good one -- is an icy “lost patrol” adventure steeped in an end-of-the-world angst reminiscent of Cormack McCarthy’s The Road.
Black Crab: This SF/War film is no classic but is far better than what some critics say. Sweden is divided by a savage civil war, civilians are targeted. No explanation is given for the cause of the conflict.
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By Matt Fowler
Posted: Mar 18, 2022 2:00 pm
This is a spoiler-free review of Black Crab, which premieres Friday, March 18 on Netflix.
Black Crab is a unique, bleak Swedish action-thriller featuring a fast and freezing ice-skating trek through a ravaged future world ripped apart by war. Through its "suicide mission"-style moonlit op, which crosses over a hundred miles of frozen Norwegian sea, it can give off some cool '80s John Carpenter vibes, but its captivating look and premise aren't quite enough to overcome its vagueness when it comes to world building and a third act that zigs when it should zag.
Rapace is great here, firing up the intensity we've seen her display in the past, now battling both flying bullets and freezing weather in this outside-the-box assignment that director Alex Berg showcases with sleek detail and layers with the whispering synthwave of music trio Dead People. There are moments, when the team is skating across the frozen hellscape, under the cloak of darkness, moon reflecting off the ice, that Black Crab crackles with both retro flare and modern intensity. And with Caroline having hyper-personal stakes in the game, she becomes a rather cold and direct member on the team, untrusting of others and driven by a purpose the rest are unaware of.
Black Crab displays many of the lovely tropes associated with a ragtag quest story, including the systematic elimination of players on the board, with each victim falling as the film highlights the various hazards and obstacles in their way across the enemy-occupied ice. In this regard, Black Crab is a fun and forceful thriller. Once the secret package is revealed, though, the film's overall murkiness works against it. As viewers, we're sucked into the team's immediate perils, but the larger war, which is never explained to us (to the point where, you know, it could be aliens for all we know), might leave one cold.
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Questions emerge along the lines of: Who is the enemy? Are we on the wrong side? Is there no right side? And if there isn't, then why is this film's ultimate endgame that important? With this broadening of the themes, we move from impactful, understandable stakes to sort of esoteric stakes. Black Crab winds up losing its sinister specificity, which made for a nice oddball actioner, and evokes a larger impersonal "humanity might not even be worth saving" message. It doesn't lose the thread completely in the end, largely thanks to Rapace being a badass who keeps Caroline's rage intact throughout, but it does open the film up to philosophical exploration that isn't quite needed.
Black Crab has all the ingredients to grab you and take you on a thrill ride -- and at times it achieves this -- but it suffers partial collapse by the end because of its need to land a little loftier than necessary. Noomi Rapace is powerful throughout, as a desperate soldier skating for her family, and the camera work out on the desolate, ominous ...
Mar 18, 2022 · Black Crab is a Swedish action thriller directed by Adam Berg. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, it follows Caroline Edh, played by Noomi Rapace, a speed skater turned soldier, who is sent on a perilous mission across a frozen archipelago.
Black Crab: Directed by Adam Berg. With Noomi Rapace, Jakob Oftebro, Dar Salim, Erik Enge. In a post-apocalyptic world, six soldiers on a covert mission must transport a mysterious package across a frozen archipelago. Noomi Rapace stars.
