Iceman
Iceman
R | 19 September 2014 (USA)
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An imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later, they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind.

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Actuakers

One of my all time favorites.

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Onlinewsma

Absolutely Brilliant!

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InformationRap

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Neive Bellamy

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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quincytheodore

Donnie Yen has delivered a lot of action movies. Whether they are widely known, critically acclaimed or flopped entirely, one underlying thing is the action is always done with commitment and bravado. Iceman reduces this into acrobatic overly 3D gimmick, if you are not bored with object thrown into the screen, Iceman will definitely instill disgust for this overused effect. There's barely any aspect of the movie that's done properly, it cluelessly mashes together things that the producer or director thought would be attraction for mainstream audience and leaves none for originality.The focus of the movie itself is broken. It opens with action comedy flair, then randomly turns into epic fantasy, romantic comedy, or crime drama without any real direction. This not only confuses the audience, but it produces campy lines and extremely unbelievably embarrassing scenes. When Donnie Yen does the Matrix to catch arrow with his mouth from fat cupid as a random princess comes in cheesy slow-mo in just five minutes, there is something dangerously wrong.Comedy attempt isn't funny at all. It tries for a bit modern touch, but ultimately relies on campy old-fashioned jokes. Characters come and go without meaningful impact, some are merely there for annoying stereotypical roles and barely seen again. It's almost as if the movie is made by half a dozen writers and directors at the same time. One scene the movie depicts epic battle and betrayal, then it shoots itself on the foot with legend of god's penis. There's no way anyone could take it seriously, and it would be fine if it's something like Stephen Chow's dark humor, Iceman doesn't even come close.Most of the events are ridiculous, characters could run around only to keep bumping into each other. I guess if ludicrous time travel or even poop joke get a pass, anything could happen. This is not the first Donnie Yen has made less than stellar movie, but here he seems uncomfortably out of place. Some fight scenes are still good, but the movie opts for unrealistic motion to accommodate 3D effect. It would've been better if Donnie Yen has more freedom to choreograph for actual combat.At least others Yen's movies, though they might not be great in plot or development, they still have the fast paced aggressive stunts. Iceman fight scenes look inauthentic and although it has foundation for more intrigue, the end product barely has any redeeming value.

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Dr_Sagan

I'm not sure what Donnie Yen was thinking when signed up for this. I hope he got some good money because this movie is so idiotic that it can ruined even decades of fame in its 1 hour and 45 minutes.I can't really understand why this is considered the Captain America of Hong Kong either.The script is incoherent to say the least. The genres shift abruptly from slapstick comedy to action and to drama and to horror in a split second. The editing is a total mess and in addition, you have to deal with some really annoying whooshes every time the location or the age changes.There is an OK I guess martial arts choreography by Yen himself but isn't enough to make the movie worth seeing.To tell you the truth I'm very disappointed from the latest martial arts movies.Overall: watch it on DVD or on the Internet.

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Bob's Yeruncle

The Hong Kong Captain America puts on a good show, but leaves us either on the hook for a sequel, or scratching our heads wondering if Graham Chapman wasn't on the scripting staff.Lots of things to like about this movie, including; Donnie Yen, humor, good action, and some excellent cinematography. While the ending is somewhat unsatisfactory if this turns out to be a one-off movie,the producers are obviously trying for a Bourne Identity sort of franchise here, and I hope they succeed in making it.Lots of good work on display here. If the sequel gets made and meets the same standard, it would easily bump this rating up a point or two, and more importantly, revive interest in and sales of the original product. It has all the makings of a classic, except a complete storyline.

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Ucare

Why is Donnie Yen doing something so idiot? Apart for some decent fight scenes, the plot is stupid, the acting is superficial, the comedy side is really low level, and the end, is it a joke? I never EVER in my all life saw ANY film ending worst than that! It makes absolutely NO SENSE at all. I cannot spoil it, but I at least warn you, because personally I can tolerate a mediocre film if at least the end makes a sense, and I can accept with sadness a good film which ends badly, but it makes me very angry if after losing time with a stupid movie I am given what probably is the worst end in the history of Cinema! Donnie Yen, if you have to keep going on like this, just stop acting and let us remember you for your good films.EDIT: I have found out that they are supposed to make a sequel. 1) they could and should have made it VERY CLEAR since the beginning, that this was a movie in two parts. 2) nevertheless, there is NO WAY that this end can be acceptable. Under no possible excuse or circumstance.

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