Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Review
The Ice The 1999 cult classic Boondock Saints has an unforgettable scene about halfway through the movie where the FBI agent (played by Willem Dafoe) hot on the Saints’ trail comes across a bullet-riddled crime scene and begins to give a play-by-play reenactment of what happened. (I’ll spare the intermediate details, but it involves a stun gun, a whole lotta bodies dropping, and some badass slo-mo shooting.) The real magic is in Dafoe’s final monologue where he (incorrectly) relives what the Saints were met with when leaving the crime scene:They exited out the front door. They had no idea what they were in for. Now they’re staring at six men with guns drawn. It was a fucking ambush. This was a fucking bomb dropping on Beaver Cleaverville. For a few seconds, this place was armageddon. There was a firefight! [There then proceeds to be a massive shootout between the Saints and their assailant.]Dafoe was accurate except for one thing: it wasn’t six men, it was one. One guy did what an FBI agent thought six could. One guy almost took out the deadliest vigilantes in Boston and still lived to tell about it.In the Boondock Explorers, the Boondock-Saints-knockoff film starring Ernest Shackleton as an Antarctic explorer and Willem Dafoe as an FBI agent hot on his trail for inexplicable reasons, Dafoe has a similar explanation after finding the remnants of the Endurance‘s crew’s belongings scattered throughout the ice and the ship itself sunk to the bottom of the Weddell Sea:They exited out the front gangway. They had no idea what they were in for. Now they’re staring at six animals, teeth drawn: a yeti, a leopard seal, a polar bear (how did that get here?), an emperor penguin, a killer whale, and an albatross. It was a fucking ambush. This was a fucking bomb dropping on Shacky Shackleville. For a few seconds, this place was snowmageddon. [There then proceeds to be a massive battle between the Explorers with harpoons and guns and the army of animals.]Dafoe was still accurate ex