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'The Iceman' (2012)

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Enjoyed this last night. The hitman-for-the-mob-story has been done before, but this was one of the better efforts. The entire cast was very good, especially Ray Liotta as a mob guy with a soft spot for a buddy. Michael Shannon stole the film however as a hulking enforcer who you absolutely do not want to cross. Maybe a couple of loose ends that could've been tidied up a bit but all in all a good film that went totally unnoticed at the box office. It deserved better.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1491044/?ref_=nv_sr_1 (Open in New Window)

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RE: 'The Iceman' (2012) - Mike B. 14:20:55 01/03/14 (0)
I saw the film because I had seen all the interviews with the real Iceman. I thought the film was entertaining but failed to give me the chills knowing how cold and callous Kuklinski really was. The final scene where he is interviewed in prison is a dead ringer.
RE: 'The Iceman' (2012) - volunteer 16:54:08 01/02/14 (0)
Excellent film.

-Wendell
Shannon was scary, but I knew too much about the original guy: he was Jewish, HUGE, - tinear 14:54:06 01/02/14 (3)
and a thorough scum bag--- Shannon got two out of three. The film didn't break any new ground, it was kind of a by-the-numbers crime film. It could have been a lot more since the guy was a serial killer/hitman, not a common type.
Definitely a film worth a tub of popcorn and a brew.

Edits: 01/02/14
- RE: �inspired by a true story� is stretched to the outermost limits. - Eldragon 09:46:49 01/06/14 (2)
  ...read some stuff after the movie - it looks like the story is fiction.
  nothing is more boring than the truth - bukowski
  - http://swallowingthecamel.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/the-icema (Open in New Window)
  - "..it looks like the story is fiction." Then Bukowski should not find it boring ^ - Road Warrior 12:47:47 01/07/14 (1)
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    "I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
    - RE: "I didn't find it boring - either, and I don't need ''a tank"... - Eldragon 07:28:50 01/08/14 (0)
      ...to CRUSH YOU! ;)
      nothing is more boring than the truth - bukowski
Yep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... - musetap 20:52:58 01/01/14 (0)
Shannon was also the only bearable aspect of the ridiculous, frightfully dull and completely unnecessary "Man of Steel".
Even in that POS he managed to pull off the role with dignity and damn good acting!

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Chris Evans did a great job . . . . - Billy Wonka 20:01:54 01/01/14 (0)
as the off-beat, New Age hit counterpart to Shannon's old school ways. It was very well done with the script/story outweighing the violence.

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