A good movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this movie but I was really curious to see Baltasar Kormákur directing a movie in Island so I thought I might as well check it out. I have to admit that I actually didn’t  know anything about this flick before watching the damned thing but it turned out to be a rather incredible true story about an Icelandic fisherman who had to swim in the ice cold atlantic ocean for about 6 hours after his ship sank. Seriously, what this guy did was just pretty insane and I have to give some credits to Ólafur Darri Ólafsson who gave here a really solid performance (seriously, it must have been hell for this guy to shoot all these scenes in the icy water). The directing by Kormákur was also solid but, in my opinion, in the 2^nd half, he did struggle to do something interesting with the material. Indeed, in the 2^nd half, after the main character managed to survive this ordeal, you get to see what happened afterwards which was in theory interesting but, unfortunately, Kormákur focused too much on the facts, on telling what happened exactly, instead of focusing more on what was going on in the mind of the main character. Anyway, to conclude, even though it was maybe nothing really groundbreaking, it was still a decent watch and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.