He becomes “the Polack,” a reliable killer for the Jersey mob who isn’t Italian. He knows his place - which keeps him alive when Demeo and his lieutenants (David Schwimmer among them) jerk him around. The Iceman establishes that the guy had a temper long before he became a contract killer. And, when mobster Roy Demeo (Ray Liotta) orders it, Kuklinski has no more compunction about killing for money than he does about making porn. In The Iceman, Michael Shannon has the voice and face of a mass murderer, a man who can tell his soon-to-be-wife (Winona Ryder), “I dub cartoons for a living” - when in reality he duplicates porn films for the mob. The real-life monster, a poker-faced family man from New Jersey, carried out coldblooded mob killings for more than a decade.The killings didn’t encompass any glamour - or sexual or sadistic glee on his part.They resulted simply from work - a cold calculation of who had to die and how the death could be achieved without getting caught. Richard Kuklinski could stand as the poster child for the banality of evil. They should have included that in the movie.The phrase “banality of evil” was used when historians tried to explain the bland men and women who perpetrated the Holocaust, and when critics sought ways to describe the often-dull villains who didn’t hold much interest apart from their crimes. Kuklinski was an usher at mass every Sunday. No genius but smart enough to know when to turn it down out in the suburbs.
Abused growing up, turns to sociopathic super bully behavior as an adult to get what he wants and to survive.
ICEMAN KILLER ACTOR MOVIE
The movie is what it is because I don't think there's all that much complex or new in a Kuklinski to learn. My biggest question for Kuklinski would be, how do you get away with so many murders, so many different methods, places, people over a span of almost 40 years? In the true crime shows the perp makes one little slip in his only perfect crime and ends up in the slam. The 'Iceman' moniker from his practice of freezing bodies to confuse the time of death. Viewers hoping to draw insights or conclusions from all the dead bodies might end up disappointed. But the Iceman story is told without ice and without chasers, a gangster flick without sentiments real or phony thrown in. Ray Liotta a can't miss as a minor mob boss, all the acting first rate and the characters real. We're not all that mad at Kuklinski for the nasty stuff he's doing. With the exception of Winona Ryder who fits seamlessly as naive suburban housewife (and the 2 daughters) very unlikely to feel sympathy for the victims with the exception of one senseless killing. Yet a shade of subtlety and pathos in his portrayal of Kuklinski that we can actually identify and take some interest in his struggles. Michael Shannon giving a strong performance as the hit-man with the calculating and creepy demeanor of a psychopathic killer with no conscience who can still flip the switch back to his life in the suburbs with wife and kids.
The Iceman a biopic based on New Jersey hit-man Richard Kuklinski who managed to murder at least 100 and possibly up to 250 victims in a span of almost 40 years.
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