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Actor: Alun Armstrong, Ian Bannen, Mac Andrews, Michael Caine, Todd BoyceBrand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Denis Crossan
Composer: Michael Kamen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
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Movie Review: Caine in the crapper
Summary: 2 Stars
Michael Caine must be one of the biggest stars in the business - no-one else could have made so many bad films and kept on working. There had always been the sustaining suspicion among his admirers that he just wasn't offered the right roles or the best films, but with Blue Ice he dispelled that notion once and for all. As its star, co-producer and prime mover, this one's entirely down to him. Made with the best of intentions - to instigate a series of commercial British features - it plays like a leaden cross between a sixties quota quickie with none of the grace (or imagination) under pressure they sometimes offered and an especially bad Carlton TV movie.
Made shortly before Caine announced his return to the role of Harry Palmer for two disaatrous back-to-back cable-TV movies, the character as good as makes his comeback here in the form of `Harry Anders,' a working-class retired spy who does the cooking. Now running a jazz club where he gets to play Bogart (with Bobby Short playing Dooley Wilson and Sam Kelly standing in for 'Cuddles' Sakall), he gets lured back into the business when his affair with the young wife of an American Embassy official involves him in a predictable conspiracy involving blackmail, murder and arms shipments.
If the star believes all this, no-one else seems to, resulting in a half-hearted, sluggish and seemingly interminable 101-minutes with only the odd unintentionally funny moment to keep you awake. The film's interrogation sequence shows some imagination as a heavily drugged Caine (attired identically to the equivalent scene in The Ipcress File) finds himself as both torturer and victim, but is all but ruined by Russell Mulcahey's typically misjudged direction that speeds up the action and renders much of it laughable.
But the real comic highlight comes earlier when Caine describes Sean Young, in a part Sharon Stone foolishly vacated when offered the lead in Basic Instinct, as being like blue ice - something wonderful and unexpected that drops on you from out of a clear blue sky. Well, actually blue ice is a frozen lump of excrement deposited from an airplane toilet, as he has already informed Patricia Hayes at the funeral of a close friend and 'vicious b*****d' in the film's opening sequence. Boy, does he know how to pay a girl a compliment!
Summary of Blue Ice
Until the car behing him took out his rear light Harry Anders (Michael Caine) thought he'd given up on spying... Now he has to think again. The car that hit him holds nothing but trouble in the seductive shape of Stacy Mansdorf (Sean Young). Stacy is the ambassador's wifewith one aim in mind tracking down her ex-lover Kyle. What she needs is a tracker- and a new lover- and Harry Anders fits the bill. Making love to Stacy comes easy it dying that's hard as one by one everyone involved with the ambassador's wife turns up dead. A bloody trail leads Harry to his boss from the secret service. an old school tie with impeccable taste style and a twist of power gone mad. Now Harry's up to his shoulder-holsterin murder espionage and illegal arms and deals. He's discovering that even old school ties can kill if the knot is not tied tight enough and the knot is closing in on Harry Anders. Harry's going to have to shoot and kill to stay alive and nothing- and nobody- had better get in his way.Running Time: 96 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC:?026359083921 Manufacturer No:?90839Action & Adventure DVD Video
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