AaronHickory

No narrative. No character building. Nothing explained at all. 45 minutes of agonized groaning/screaming. Another 45 minutes of muffled audio and/or plain silence or useless dialogue. Sure, it looks good, but that's about all they can do nowadays.

Somehow this is tagged with the genre "war epic." What happened to the war genre? Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Hamburger Hill, Thin Red Line, Deer Hunter, FMJ, Private Ryan and many other greats. The last decent war film I can recall is 13 Hours, and that was almost a decade ago.

Very disappointing after all the hype, and not to mention just plain boring. Alex Garland is a legend for Ex Machina and a number of other incredible scripts before that, but not this time. Hope he steps it back up for 28 Years Later.

The Iceman is a great film overall, with very skillful "execution" in most categories. Unfortunately, if you know anything about the real Richard Kuklinksi, you may find yourself disappointed. I saw both parts of the HBO documentary, The Iceman Tapes, and because of that extra knowledge it left me wanting after the film ended. The main flaw here was that they didn't depict what a truly sick bastard this man was. Such disturbing anecdotes that were described in the documentary, such as a day when Mr. Kuklinski decided to test out a crossbow on a random citizen's face "just to see what happened," and a time when he let a man be eaten alive by rats, filmed it, and watched it later, were not depicted. I still found this movie to be worth watching, and deserving of high marks, but if you know anything about the true story, don't go in with unreasonable expectations.

This film had potential to be outstanding, but it couldn't sell me. I didn't buy much of the dialogue to be realistic or believable. I didn't buy the killers motives either. I understand they tried to explain it away with various reasons but it just doesn't seem believable. The whole plot plays out to be a bit silly. On the good side, Cuba plays his part pretty well here. He looks worn out and dead inside, and I'm betting he didn't need to strain too hard to portray such a character. The action scenes are well done, as well as the sound design. That being said, I found myself wanting to see what was going to happen, and I wasn't bored. If a movie bores me I will easily fast forward or turn it off, and I made it through this one easily.