Those not incinerated in the immediate vicinity are nonetheless threatened by the black cloud of smoke that soon fills the entire narrow expanse filled with trapped travelers. But things get a lot worse when an electrical short and his leaking gasoline cargo ignite.
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Amid already-treacherous icy road conditions, a trucker panicked by fleeting visual impairment crashes against the tunnel walls, disabling his vehicle and halting a long line of impatient drivers behind him. That proves an unfortunate choice, as the five-mile tunnel through a nearby mountain pass - whose maintenance and safety have comprised civil servant Stein’s longtime work - is about to suffer blockage. When dad proposes they celebrate Christmas as a trio, his only child storms out in a huff, impulsively catching an express bus to Oslo. But teenage daughter Elise (Ylva Lyng Fuglerud) clings to the memory of the mother who died of cancer three years ago, and thus resents his finally “moving on” from that spousal loss with cafe owner Ingrid (Lisa Carlehed). It’s an awkward moment for stoic Stein (Thorbjorn Harr), because he’d like to spend this vacation time with both the women in his life.
On Christmas Eve Day, everybody is heading home for the holidays, many through one or more of Norway’s 1,100-plus tunnels. It’s getting released to virtual cinemas on March 12, with Samuel Goldwyn launching in actual U.S.
Solidly crafted if a bit uninspired, Pål Øie’s thriller is like a horizontal, colder, sootier “Towering Inferno” minus the all-star-cast, though their soap-operatics are intact.
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