Operation Napoleon–Frozen Conspiracy
Operation Napoleon, a conspiracy treasure-hunt thriller, will have you thinking you are watching an “Indiana Jones” drama. Romanticizing parts of a true story, Operation Napoleon opens in April 1945, when a Nazi airplane flies over Iceland in the middle of a storm. The plane crashes with no survivors. Germany surrenders a few days later.
Flash-forward to today. A corporate lawyer, Kristín (Vivian Ólafsdóttir), is seen demolishing an arrogant entrepreneur’s deceptive business plan to finance his company’s search for resources on Vatnajökull, an enormous glacier. Almost simultaneously, her brother, while snowmobiling on the glacier with colleagues researching climate change, finds the Nazi plane. He texts his sister and then communication is lost. The ties between the entrepreneur’s deceitful plan and the Nazi airplane are waiting to be explained.
Kristin is accused of murder, and her only chance of survival and proving her innocence lies in uncovering the secrets contained in the old German WWII plane. But most of all, Kristin wants to find her brother. With her former boyfriend, Professor Steve Rush (Jack Fox) , she discovers that the search for the missing plane is codenamed Operation Napoleon by the CIA, and that it is US agents who are hunting her down before she reveals their eighty-year-old undercover operation.
Operation Napoleon’s untold mission could change the course of history in revealing the unknown US relationship with Nazi Germany. Deputy CIA director (Iain Glen who played Jorah Mormont in “Game of Thrones”) is obsessive in his campaign to preserve the secrecy of Operation Napoleon and his family’s role in the mission.
Operation Napoleon romanticizes a true story in order to bring it to the screen with a certain power. There is enough intrigue and tension throughout to set up a possible sequel. The action is almost nonstop. The premise of the film is interesting enough to keep you watching, despite leaps of logic and suspension of credibility in certain plot points, not unlike the “Indiana Jones” epic series. There are enough villains to make life difficult for the heroes and enough intrigue to make Operation Napoleon an entertaining, popcorn-worthy, escapist thriller.
Availability: Hulu