ColdTrail - A Thriller From IceLand

Over the past couple of months I have become a regular viewer of the UTV WorldMovies(http://www.utvworldmovies.com/). Apart from the movies of world reknowned French,Italian directors,I can find good movies from various parts of the world about which I knew very little.

Today I watched an IceLandic movie named ColdTrail.This is a great thriller set in the frozen and misty landscape of Iceland. It begins with the murder of a person in a tunnel like place.In the next scene we find Baladur(Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson) covering a scoop news of daughter accusing celebrity father of molestation.Next is the meeting with editor Baladur has his sensational news and one of his collegue has another:Mysterious death of a night guard in a remote dam which local people feels is an act of ghost.Obviously father molesting daugther sells well and becomes the headline.That day Baladur comes to know from his mother that the person killed at the dam is his father.Baladur raised by a single mother is angry & confused.He starts his own investigation to know more about his father and how he died.In the meantime the sensational sensual scoop news backfires on Baladur as police finds that it was nothing but a false acquistion from a troubled teenager.Baladur quits his job as a journalist and goes to the dam as the new nightguard.
The dam in winter is like a remote castle with few people as guards and operators.Freyja(Elva Ósk Ólafsdóttir) provides supplies to these people and manages her farm downhill.You need a snowmobile to go upto the dam in winters.This is a combination of bike and sledge.I liked that it's slick.In the ice,darkness and mist plots and subplots of mystery are spawned with both natural and supernatural elements in it.
The style of making is quite Hollywood like.Both the veteran actors have worked very well.Only the presence of a supernatural element seemed to me as the most weakest part of the film.It could have been avoided.In epics you have to rely upon god for rescuing your protagonists from an impossible odd situation.The presence of the spirit in backgound seemed to have played a similar role.At least in my opinion it does not add any extra suspense.
Snow clad mountains have been favourite for song picturization for most Bollywood directors.Thrillers are the area where Bollywood is mostly inspired from others.ColdTrail can be a good inspiration I believe :-)
You can the watch the trailer at youtube: