In the "The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer", you'll hear all about it from those in law enforcement who brought him down, from the medical examiner, from his wife, and from the man himself, the last part being what makes this documentary what it is. He killed for money, to cover up his own crimes, out of anger, and sometimes just because he could. He was also one of America's most cold blooded, intelligent, and proficient killers. Just being there, he makes Kuklinski sympathetic, a Hitler to Kuklinski's Mussolini.Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski was a husband, father, and loving family man. Chris Evans has a chilling supporting role as a hit man so thoroughly evil that he doesn't even seem to register the possibility of human feeling. Kuklinski, who starts off dumb and then graduates into wanting to stay dumb. It's a vivid clash of two screen images, one long established, the other just coming into sharp focus.
One of the pleasures of "The Iceman" is in watching Liotta - as a loquacious and perpetually exasperated mobster, who sees himself as the soul of reason and who is used to terrifying everybody - dealing with Shannon playing an almost prehistoric man, who says nothing and seems incapable of fear.
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At the same time, he seems to have some vestigial moral code because he genuinely cares for his family. He carves up dead bodies with a chain saw like someone else might slice up a pizza. His initiation is to go across the street and kill a homeless guy.Īs played by Shannon, Kuklinski is a highly functional oddball, not a sociopath, not someone incapable of emotion, but someone with ice water in place of blood, so that little gets through to him. When his boss, a mobster named Roy (Ray Liotta, of course) decides to close the lab, Richard is offered a better job - as a hit man. In this story of one man's career, Kuklinski starts off on the fringes of organized crime, running a film laboratory that develops pornographic movies - yet another high-paying, middle-class job killed off by the digital revolution. He came home every night to their home in the suburbs and claimed to be a currency speculator. Kuklinski was a private contract killer, in the employ of a mafia boss for two decades, who claimed to have killed more than 100 people. In "The Iceman," Shannon plays Richard Kuklinski, a real-life monster, but an understandable one, whose slow and faulty thinking is available to us, thanks to Shannon's inexplicable transparency. Rated R: for strong violence, pervasive language and some sexual content You absolutely know it, and yet neither Shannon nor the director has done anything to tip you off, beyond showing Shannon looking at somebody. But then two or three seconds later, the line is crossed, and you know he is going to kill this guy. He lets one insult slide, then lets another go, even as he is becoming annoyed.
The face barely moves, and yet it tells a whole story. Shannon's face receives the insults impassively. First the guy considers not paying, then he starts flinging insults. We see it all, even when the other people on screen miss it.Ī good example of this comes in an early scene in "The Iceman." He has just hustled a guy at pool, and the guy isn't happy about it. Just put the camera on that face - he doesn't have to move a muscle - and things start to happen. More than most actors, including most screen actors, Michael Shannon belongs in movies. 1 of2 Chris Evans, left, and Michael Shannon star in "The Iceman." Anne Marie Fox Show More Show Less 2 of2 AMF_1549 (126 of 180).NEF Anne Marie Fox Show More Show Less
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