在这部绝命北极动作/冒险片中,简介：一架客机原本要从巴黎至纽约，但飞机刚飞过美国领空不久，意外随即发生，所有乘客随着飞机被劫持至北极。一群劫机者迫使这架班机坠毁在阿拉斯加的雪山群峰中。这显然绝非一般的劫机事件。杭特博士，挖掘到传说中的致命武器-特斯拉激光，搭乘了这架班机，他此行目的是护卫这个能在瞬间以意志力毁灭万物的致命武器赴美，随行人士在这场劫机事件不幸丧生，他现在绝不能让歹徒夺走特斯拉激光，更要防止它被引爆而引发地球灭亡的浩劫。杭特博士和数名生还者必须接受这项严酷的挑战，因为若不是拥有特斯拉激光，美国绝对不会来救他们；但也是因为拥有激光，他们无可选择地成为国际恐怖份子追杀的目标。这是一场在绝地里斗智斗力的开始，钓住华盛顿，逃过恐怖份子追杀…他们无所不用其极，只为求生及挽救一场世纪大灾难.。
简评：一架喷射机在飞越美国领空时，一个伪装的持枪逃犯要挟持飞机，不仅乘客被杀死，飞机的压力调整器也被破坏，喷射机迅速坠毁在阿拉斯加一座覆满白雪的山头，听起来很像911的另一个版本。可本片意不在此，数名生还者如何在冰天雪地中活下来，并找出一条生路，才是它的重点。信念，对亲人的挂念，生存的渴望，《极地重生》里的基文斯可以熬过西伯利亚的严寒，上万公里的跋涉，被追赶的恐惧，饥渴难忍的痛苦，不也是靠这些么？
Antiques collector Maurice Hunter and his daughter Nadia and their Russian guides are in Siberia, on a search for the legendary Tesla death ray. This weapon has the ability to vaporize entire countries in the blink of an eye, and is responsible for the destruction of a half million acres of trees in Siberia in the 1950s. The ray is found in a cave full of bats, the Russian guides turn on the Hunters in an effort to steal the ray. Hunter uses the death ray to vaporize the Russian guides. Having found the ray, it must now be turned over to the CIA. First, Hunter and Nadia must get on a charter flight from Moscow to Canada with a bunch of American celebrities. The airplane is hijacked by a group of terrorists led by a man named Beck, who want the ray to use in a planned attack. But the jet crashes in Canada, and the passengers are stranded in the mountains of Alberta. The survivors include Hunter, Nadia, and Hunter's girlfriend Barbara. CIA agent Jason Ross and his partner Alan arrive to...
