Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThe famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the South Pole (on Dec.
14, 1911), so when you watch “Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition,” you may think you’ve got a good idea of the movie you have in store: an adventure at once exciting and treacherous, set in the frozen wilderness, with a stoic Nordic hero at its center — the kind of man who might have been played a few decades ago by Max von Sydow. “Amundsen” has scattered moments of tense physical drama, set against glacial Arctic vistas of fantastic authenticity.
You really feel like you’re there.The movie opens with two men in a propeller plane conking out in the middle of the icy nowhere.
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