The Iceman
The film tells the story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man who earns a well-deserved reputation as a cold-blooded killer but manages to keep his violent profession a secret from his wife and children for years.
7 December 1972, Oakland, California, USA
14 May 1996, Dallas, Texas, USA
15 February 1954
19 May 1973, Warsaw, Poland
19 October 1954, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
29 October 1971, Winona, Minnesota, USA
12 September 1978, Andrews, West Texas, USA
19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA
17 July 1963, Ridgewood, Queens, New York, USA
9 January 1984, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
September 02, 2013
It's as though they were in a rush to get so much killing in that they forgot all of the important elements that would make us care. As a consequence, a fascinating story and character have been flattened and turned into a hurried mess.
May 17, 2013
Shannon gets at his character's pent-up torment as well as his efficient disconnect. When his two worlds start to converge -- on his daughter's sweet 16th birthday, no less -- you feel for him.
May 16, 2013
It's a fascinating subject - the beast that lurks inside the family man - but the movie blows it.
August 28, 2013
'Big bad' with a side dish of bats--t crazy is the specialty of Michael Shannon, and so scarily good he is in mining this wheelhouse that one does not dare to complain about him repeating himself.
May 05, 2015
A low-rent movie with an expensive cast.
June 04, 2013
Even the always-watchable Shannon can't give much life to Kuklinski's two-dimensional presence: he's little more than a series of murders and pained looks.
May 17, 2013
A true-crime thriller directed with grit, gristle and punchy energy by Ariel Vromen, The Iceman is never less than fascinating, even if things get a little ham-fisted here and there.
February 01, 2014
Lack of originality and insipid screenwriting may soon be read as the autopsy of this actively tiresome genre.
June 24, 2013
The Iceman rests on the power of one hell of a performance from Shannon, with this monster of an actor playing a monster of a man with frightening intensity.
May 17, 2013
Michael Shannon is an overpowering actor, and in The Iceman, the best that he can do is wrestle the movie around him to a stalemate.
July 12, 2013
An exploitation film trapped in the stifling body of a respectable crime drama.
May 17, 2013
As the body count mounts, the movie begins to spin out of control, but Shannon and Vromen don't let it derail. Their focus keep things from melting down.
