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Good concept, poorly executed.

good back-story, and good acting

Best movie ever!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The story is good but glosses over a lot of the darker deeds he carried out. One last thing.....what the hell is David Schwimmer doing in this film. His acting is so bad and he looks absolutely ridiculous with that moustache and hair.

The Iceman (2012) is a decent hit-man thriller based upon real life events. The story follows Richard Kuklinski ( Michael Shannon), a notorious contract killer. The film is complete with tons of mafia movie clichés: old cars, conversations in fancy Italian restaurants, everyone's wearing leather jackets, the main character goes from rags to riches, there's a scene at a night club, there's a cold blooded killer whose a family man and Ray Liotta is playing some angry mobster. The best part of this film is undeniably Michael Shannon's outstanding performance. His performance is definitely award worthy. However, most of this movie is bland. You don't care about anybody except Michael Shannon's character. You don't give a s*** about his wife ( Winona Ryder) and you ESPECIALLY don't give two s**ts about his two daughters. The film glosses over too much. It consistently time jumps. The action is really good and so is the acting. The story, however, is not as interesting as it should be. A movie about a hit-man with over 100 documented kills should absolutely grip me. This movie didn't do that for me. Its not bad,but its nothing creative or original. Its decent.

There is nothing i would love more to say that this is a brilliant film but its not....its very badly written and has little if nothing to do with the life of The Iceman. However, the lead actors especially Michael Shannon do a fantastic job and their performances are wonderful in the face of such a bad script I know in many ways the book will always be better than the film just due to the info that can be squeezed into it but even that isn't true in this case HUGE swathes of information are missing - the characters are not introduced properly and neither are their relationships to the iceman The film makes him out to be some sort of seedy porn king - this couldn't be further from the truth...no mention of his early life, his brothers death, his parents abuse, his kills that he used for practice, the people he did kill and torture, the poisoning phase, he went through, the domestic abuse between him and his wife...all of this seems to have been ignored by someone who if you ask me hasn't even read the book Hopefully a writer who has read the book will do another screenplay and they'll cast Michael Shannon again and it will be as good if not better than the book!

Oscar nominee Michael Shannon brings to life, Richard Kuklinski also known as the Iceman where he freezes his murder victims to avoid time detection of his murders. Richard Kuklinaki was a brutal merciless hit man for the mob and anybody who paid him. On other side, he was a loyal husband and devoted father to two daughters. They were obviously unaware of Richie's other life and world. Unlike other hit men, he refused to kill women and children. Michael Shannon is breathtaking in his performance. Winona Ryder was excellent as his wife, Debra. Kuklinski's criminal career is not pretty where he executed perhaps over a 100 men. We learn little about his background and childhood as a Polish American in New Jersey. The cast includes Ray Liotta (a New Jersey native and star of Goodfellas); David Schwimmer (Friends); and Robert Davi. This film does a good job in recounting his life. I just wonder about Debra and their daughters. What became of them in the end?