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Directed by: Scott Walker
Starring: Nicolas Cage (Sgt Jack Halcombe), John Cusack (Robert Hansen), Vanessa Hudgens (Cindy), 50 Cent (Clate), Radha Mitchell (Allie)
Country: United States
Language: English (Eng Subs)
Runtime: 01:45:31
Genres: Serial Killers, Based on a True Story, Detective, Sexual-Violence against Women
Plot – Spoilers:
A young prostitute Cindy is found handcuffed in a motel claiming to have been raped and tortured by Robert Hansen, a mild-looking baker. The police aren’t keen on taking the word of a hooker and let Hansen go, convinced this was a hookup that turned rough. But one of the cops is suspicious and mails details of the case to the State Troopers. Trooper Jack Halcombe is set to retire soon, but the prospect of nailing a potential serial killing case in the Alaskan cold, warms him up nicely.
Frozen Ground, based on real-life serial killer Robert Hansen, is more concerned with how the case against him was built and Sgt Halcombe’s relationship with Cindy, than it is with Hansen’s actual crimes.
Cliched and sappy by-the-numbers dialog and some really shitty acting from Nicolas Cage (Sgt Jack Halcombe) and Vanessa Hudgens (Cindy). Unfortunately those 2 dominate the main part of the story. John Cusack (Robert Hansen) is really good at playing a dickhead, but it’s typecasting because he is one IRL. This was an absolute disaster at the box office and it’s easy to see why. This film epitomizes everything I hate about Hollywood actors. I can’t stand Nicolas Cage as an actor. John Cusack has made a couple of decent films like “1408”(2007) and “The Bag Man” (2014) but I’m not crazy about him as an actor either.
I’m going to give this film just a cunt hair over 2 stars and let me tell you why. It’s admirable to honor the victims of Robert Hansen. If the film makers intentions were to make money from Hansen’s victim’s misfortune they failed miserably. The real reason for the low score is Vanessa Hudgens. Her acting was pure dog shit.
When Cage lets himself get compressed and screwed down tight into a role this is more or less what happens. Cusack is the pleasant surprise here. He’s very credible as the bad guy. He manages to look like the real person and when an actor manages that, he’s more then half way there. But, unfortunately, to give this thing the proper moral majority ballast, the center is the teenage girl that manages to escape. She is so obnoxious that one finally agrees with Cusack when they have him cornered…”I should have killed the stupid c*** when I had the chance.” Yes he should have. It would have made the movie a lot more tolerable as it clanks and grinds through the usual serial killer/detective gears.
A good movie, good story, good pay off.
This is a decent movie, which ironically would best be viewed on the big screen given the visually arresting shots of the Alaskan landscape except that it had a very tiny release on the big screen, and has most certainly been seen more on-demand and now through the DVD format. In case a viewer of “The Frozen Ground” is left unsatisfied with the necessary compression of events, composite characters, etc. that are necessary to produce a movie of less than two hours in length, and want to learn more about the Hansen case that inspired the movie one could do worse then read “Fair Game” by Bernard DuClos that was recently republished. Reading it as a companion to the
movie will help the viewer of “The Frozen Ground” realize the liberties that were inevitably taken to make it suitable for the silver screen as well as understand elements of Hansen’s life and killing spree that the picture did not have time to delve into such as more of Hansen’s background (which early on indicated a propensity toward crime) and the back story of the whole oil pipeline boom that produced the mafia controlled prostitution/strip bar scene that Hudgen’s character is entangled in.
Good plot, plenty of drama, fine acting and an all round good film.
Excellent serial killer thriller, lovely weather and great cinematography. Great performance by ‘Cindy’.
The subtitles though were too annoying in addition to the sound, so I had to watch the film muted and just read the titles.
I’ve gotta say I agree with Sundance. Cage and Cusack was/is a winning combination. 8 out of 10 all the way around. I enjoyed it very much.
Trivia. Nicolas Cage in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” using his real name – Nicolas Cappola. You can easily recognize him in the “No shirt. No shoes. No dice” scene with Sean Penn and Eric Stolz (all kids)
Cage and Cusack were great together. A true story about an American serial killer. A solid 8/10
Love Nick Cage, he is one of my favourites, Thx for this movie.
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