The
Iceman 5/10
I
finally watched this movie The Iceman starring Michael Shannon as the
real life serial killer Richard Kuklinski. I had meant to watch this
for a while since I watched the documentary about the guy years ago
on cable. This movie should have been way better than it was but it
seemed like they were trying to make this lunatic somewhat a good guy
and as if he were just doing bad things to get money to give his
family a better life. They showed a few moments of him losing his
shit at home but left out how he beat his wife played by Winona Ryder
and would be evil as hell for long periods of time. In this it was
more like he would lose his temper and some of the bad would get out
for his family to see. This movie definitely had a Goodfellas vibe to
it which wasn't helped by the fact that Ray Liotta was in it.
Richard
tells his family that he dubs movies for Disney but in reality he
does it for porno flicks. One day he is approached and threatened by
Liotta to work for him which he does very well. His house gets
bigger, his family is doing well, but the mafia killings start to get
in the way of more work for him and he ends up working with Robert
Pronge played by Chris Evans. That's right! Zod and Captain
America/Johnny Storm/Casey Jones end up going after and killing The
Green Goblin! I mean James Franco.
The
parts of the movie that are good are really good but it felt so
uneven that just when I was getting into it something would happen
and yank me right out of it. The passage of time felt unclear and it
was up to me to go “Oh, he changed his hair” or “Okay, the
music sounds different” to know that the years were going by. I
really wanted to like this movie and have a weird feeling that
somewhere there is a version of this that is way darker and better.
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