The movie is yet another "Convoy" movie from WW2 , and does a decent job of telling the story of arctic convoys that shipped goods across Atlantic to Soviet union, to Murmansk.

I somewhat feel the movie is suffering from not enough of a budget.

Yes, there are action scenes, but throughout the movie you expect more from the movie such as perhaps a chase from German navy.

And not once you see inside enemy vessels and air planes, you get a distant CGI feeling of it since this is a very budget movie.

Also, the Norwegian and Swedish actors are a bit dull and lacks emotion. It is a bit too much yet another day on the job and acting lacks energy.

Overall, it is a decent movie. Somebody said it is a bit better than "Narvik", but I totally disagree. "Narvik" is a way better movie with a bigger budget and proper battle scenes.

So the movie is just an average meh from me.

And also I highly disliked that the movie stopped short, not showing the ship getting to its goal of delivering goods in Murmansk. Way too much time of the movie instead contained lengthy and somewhat boring scenes.

I missed this when it went to cinemas in Norway, so it will be streaming on TV instead. It is probably not recommended. Here there are quite impressive action scenes with attacks with accompanying music that probably do best on a big screen with big sound.

I think it is good that Norwegian and Scandinavian films have started to produce big action films, with fight scenes. The action here is taken from the Second World War, and drama revolves around a ship under constant attack from German submarines and aircraft. Exciting, right?

Unfortunately, I was not very impressed with this film. I think the main reason is that it tries to do so much at once, without anything being really good. The starting point is then the action on a ship during the war. But this is washed away somewhat by a great deal of internal strife between the main characters. Arguments and power struggles are described in detail, and the action itself and the message about the fear these people experienced on board comes into the background. I also don't manage to get to know the main characters in the film properly, and when dramatic events happen with them, I don't get particularly carried away.

Maybe a bit more time should have been spent on the script and development of the characters up front?

So I guess I end up above in the middle when it comes to how much I enjoyed this movie.

On the real facts, on how a life in the nortraship fleet were for the lowest of the laimen onboard the ships, also the fact that this was an arctic convoy, they never sailed them convois during highsummer and midnightsun, and it seems theyve forgotten how the elements of nature wore out men and ship, smooth ocean in the barentz ocean is a strike of luck, and for 12 days...no !.

I expected a lot more action from this war historical norwegian production, instead they deliver a kind of enclosed dramaturgical horror that almost anyone with a cam in a studio can make.

They have some outdoor scenes, with vfx and cgi that are mostly covered by fog in the horizon . As a historical shipping nerd, i have my doupt about the shape of the ship, 2nd ww trampers had usually its steerhouse midships, not aft as in this film.

We do also have to say that norwegian actors speaks extremely blurry and hard to hear what they say, so i say again, muster up, speak loud and clear so even a norwegian may understand your gibberish kauderwelsk.

All in all, its a dragged out movie for those who shall see and learn for the future, allthough technology are different today, its still the same humans that runs the ships. I think this was a flunk, and a mismatch of real historically registered convoyes where the horrors of war seems anasthesized and the rugging and the sound of a ship underway are missing out completely.

Im writing this review on behalf of my grandfather, that wouldve been one hundred and twentyone years today, torpedoed twice while shuffling coal into the steamboiler, survived it all, with heavy , what we call today PTSD, that came to show during his last 10 years of living with dementia, where doors left open, warmth at full steam, and panick attacks when the nurse at the nursing home left the room with the bedrails in rised position (and the nurse where actually me, the reviewer at my first assignment as a nursing student...) otherwise it would be man overboard, and crushed to the floor.

So on behalf of my forefather and miself, its not so riveting as it was in real life, just a small recommend.