Film Review – Black Crab

If you’ve felt that war movies have suffered from tremendous sameness in recent years, here comes “Black Crab,” which focuses on a special mission during a Scandinavian conflict that requires the use of soldiers on ice skates to help transfer a mystery device behind enemy lines. Perhaps fearing he’s coming close to absurdity, co-writer/director Adam Berg focuses his attention on the harshness of conflict, reinforcing the human price of warfare and all the difficult moral choices contained within military service. “Black Crab” takes its inspiration from a novel by Jerker Virdborg, and Berg labors to keep the endeavor visually interesting and dramatically potent. He has some trouble with length, but Berg gives the picture memorable encounters and a few gut-punch moments, with star Noomi Rapace delivering another skin-tearing performance, occasionally broken up by lengthy periods of ice skating. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com