After persuading Mrs. P this was not an overly-violent, "all doom and gloom like your usual picks" type of film, we trundled off to see The Iceman.
Well, once again I lied - about it not being overly-violent. After all, it's the true story of Richard Kuklinski, a mafia hit-man who claimed to have killed over 100 people before he was arrested in 1986.
And not to be found lying just the once - I also fibbed about it not being all doom and gloom. It was necessarily bleak, not at all happy-go-lucky.
Having said that, it was a good, strong movie, with great characters and acting to go with those characters.
It starred the excellently cold Michael "Dexter" Shannon as The Iceman, so called because of his habit of freezing his victims so that when they were found, police could not calculate their time of death. He learned the cold storage practice from his partner Chris "Captain America" Evans, who played Mr. Freezy, a name he got from his less lucrative side business of running an ice cream van.
Also the ever-dismal Ray Liotta - the mafioso who hired The Iceman, Wynona Rider as Kuklinski's wife, who managed to stay unaware of her husband's murderous proclivities until the day of his arrest.
David (I don't need to put "Friends" in here do I?) Schwimmer, James Franco and Stephen Dorff rounded out the excellent cast.
It's not a wham bam action flick, but real life - even mafia life - is seldom like that.
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