The film's near-unfocused dragging really does defuse a sense of momentum through a repetitious formula that would be easier to forgive if it was at least mildly refreshing. About as much as its undercooked, this film is overblown, with excesses in material that really do start to run together after a while, resulting in repetition that may very well eventually devolve into aimlessness. The film does little to flesh out pretty important supporting characters, and even brushes over the development of its lead, until it becomes underdeveloped, with well-rounded moments in characterization, just not enough for you to feel rather distanced from the undercooked affair, particularly when you find that the film spends much of the precious time that it could be spending on fleshing things out on dragging. Apparently everyone else thought that he had the fish face for crime, and I must admit that he does a fine job of it, even if the films he's in aren't as consistent in their effectiveness. It would have to be, because Michael Shannon is scary enough when he's not involved in organized crime.
I, on the other hand, am not nearly as nerdy as a lot of people think I am fast cars and motorcycles, steaks, beautiful women, rock music and whatnot, in addition, of course, to this film, which is also pretty hardcore. At any rate, Chris Cox of already made the Bobby Drake joke in his review of this film, and he's a comic geek, so he can be sort of excused. Even more than that, I can't believe that I just spent two sentences running with the joke that I'm mistaking this for a film about Iceman from the "X-Men", because it's bad enough that the book upon which this film is based pulls a title pun with "The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer". Man, as if "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" didn't seem enough like an unnecessary prequel, I can't believe they scrapped the idea for "X-Men Origins: Magneto" to make a prequel about Bobby "Iceman" Drake, nor can I believe Michael Shannon would betray DC by being in a Marvel superhero film before he played Zod in "Man of Steel".
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I don't know whether to jokingly mistake this for "The Iceman Cometh" or jokingly mistake this for 1984's "Iceman", because where this film is about to get about as much attention as "The Iceman Cometh", - which should tell you just how many people forgot about '84's "Iceman" - "Iceman" is a sci-fi film, and, naturally, a spin-off from the "X-Men" series would be considered science fiction. At least, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta and a nearly unrecognizable Chris Evans are very good in support.
"The Iceman" is one of those based on a true stories that wants to rests on the fact that it is a true story and do nothing more to explore the contradictions in its protagonist.(Plus, the exact dating of events is unnecessary.) In the bargain, it says little on the subject of suburban sociopaths that has not already been said and then some in such fictional examples as "Breaking Bad" and Dexter." That lackluster approach is certainly not helped by Michael Shannon's 1 1/2 note performance. Because Roy as part of the mob has a use for men like Richard which he proves in killing a homeless man in broad daylight. That comes in handy when Roy Demeo(Ray Liotta) arrives to shut down his business. Plus, there is that violent streak he has. Well, that is not exactly true, as in fact, he dubs porn films for a living. As Richard Kuklinski(Michael Shannon) tells Deborah(Winona Ryder), his blind date, he dubs Walt Disney films.
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