7/10
Icelandic gore flick entertaining by spurts
1 September 2020
Here is an entertaining little splatter flick from "Iceland", with some pleasing low-brow humour.

A group of mostly pretty horrible tourists - and some natives - go on a whale watching trip in the dismal Icelandic sea. There's an alcoholic, bullying Frenchman, three horny women in late middle age, a kindly man with bleached hair who is not what he appears, a misogynistic Japanese man with his cowed wife, and an African American tourist with a generic final girl.

After the idiotic Frenchman causes an accident that leads to the injury of the captain, the whale-watching expedition attracts the attention of a group of psychos who welcome them on board, looking to help continue the bloodshed.

I enjoyed the movie, though it frequently dragged. The filmmakers were mostly unable to find a common thread to string the movie together; it felt disconnected much of the time. The characters also never really develop, and a lot of the gore looked pretty cheap, including one of the least realistic decapitation scenes I have seen since the heyday of '70s exploitation.
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