Agent on Ice (1985)
1/10
First 10 minutes are great - last 85 minutes are awful
16 May 2010
Warning: Spoilers
This movie starts out with a guy driving down the road, a guy sets up a booby trap forcing him to crash, when he gets out of his car a strange man chases him with an axe and ultimately splits his skull with it....how cool is that, but wait...the movie sucks the rest of the way. The rest of this boring movie involves different agents and mafia guys going around looking for one another doing whatever it takes to kill them, but no one seems to ever get it right and there's nothing gang movie like or especially Mafia style done in this film. It is boring and after 20 minutes I could care less who died, cause all of the characters sucked...this was as bad and as low budget as a movie can get.

The cast was full of nobodies. I do recall Matt Craven from a few things, but he definitely is not a great actor. All of the actors here did OK, but none did great. The movie had some cool quotes in it, but it's not a comedy and no one should like it for that. The movie was so slow and boring. One of the worst films I have ever watched.

The film starts out with such beautiful direction, and Ian Carpentars music is just perfect. It feels like a great 80's slasher film and I was on the edge of my seat thinking "wow, why haven't I seen this before" and then after the axe to the head, it changed...the music turned into lazy synth notes that was so dated and horrible and the director just got lazy and it played out like a 15 cent cop drama....

Such a let down, I am glad I didn't pay anything for my VHS copy, I will never watch it again, and it is not a gang film, not a mafia film, definitely not a thriller...it's just boring characters killing more boring characters... total snore fest 1/10 stars
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