"The Ice Harvest" has all of the requisite ingredients of your classic film noir (the perfect crime, the femme fatale, a partnership undone by avarice, meaty plot twists), but it doesn't feel like a pastiche; and it's part of the movie's sense of humor that the crime goes down at Christmastime (in Wichita, no less, which is appropriate given the overall sleepy vibe) And not the bad sleepy, either.
I came away from this with a smile on my face. There's some great dialogue (most of the funnies come from Billy Bob Thornton), and John Cusack's ideally chosen for a character brimming with self-loathing. Most of all, it tickles me that the late Harold Ramis was behind this. It's great stuff.
7/10
I came away from this with a smile on my face. There's some great dialogue (most of the funnies come from Billy Bob Thornton), and John Cusack's ideally chosen for a character brimming with self-loathing. Most of all, it tickles me that the late Harold Ramis was behind this. It's great stuff.
7/10