The Ice Road (2021) review

In Manitoba, Canada, an explosion traps several miners - this is all due to corporate irresponsibility, you see - so a driver named Goldenrod (Laurence Fishburne) hires Mike McCann (Liam Neeson), his brother Gurty (Marcus Thomas) - who has aphasia from fighting in the Middle East - and others to deliver objects called "wellheads" to the location ... except getting there is a problem, since the "roads" are all icy and fragile.  The concept is strictly out of the B-movie pile (plus: a racist villain!) and the effects are sometimes cheap, but it does give the audience what it presumably started watching for: to see Neeson squinting and grunting and taking everything with the utmost seriousness.  We live in the 21st century and we're all carrying around mini computers in our pockets: couldn't there have been, you know, an easier way to do all of this?