Movie Reviews for Ice Men

Ice Men

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Movie Reviews of Ice Men

Movie Review: howmany plots can you have
Summary: 4 Stars

if you want to see what happens when you surpress things and don't see what is realy going on then watch it if not then don't this dvd shows you how messed up some families can be and that you do not always have to do things the way they were done in the past.

Movie Review: Meeting the school-friends
Summary: 4 Stars

Twenty something school friends meet to recall their schooling and sort out relationships while families apart with a tragic result.

Movie Review: Not What I Expected
Summary: 3 Stars

Whoever thought that this movie should be classified gay, should have their thinking process re-examined. In my opinion, the main plot or story of this movie is very heterosexual. Perhaps because there is a bed scene between two guys classifies it as gay, but it is mostly about guys bonding and their relationships since kids.

The plot revolves about a weekend outing of five guys who grew up together somewhere in Canada. It is the 30th birthday of one of the guys. They go to a cabin in the woods, a place where they use to hang together as kids. The cabin is now owned by a very successful lawyer, who happens to have a brother who is invited by one of the other guys. This guy is a looser and hated by his brother.

There is a songwriter (whose birthday is being celebrated), a gym instructor (who is acting straight but deep inside he is not), and a failing photographer (who is open gay and lets them all know at the reunion. At least he is honest about himself.) The photographer and the gym instructor go at it one night in bed. The gym instructor resents the fact that it happened, he claims he was drunk, the other guy doesn't think so.

The story is basically about how screwed up these men lives are, whether they are successful or not. The two brothers lives are closely examined and there seems to be a lot of flashback scenes on one of them dealing with a deer hunting trip with their father, whether he was forced to kill a dove to prove to be a man.

There is a lot drinking, inner soul searching, a lot of bickering and fighting among each other. A near drowning by the gambling brother (trying to commit suicide) brings them all back together at the end of the movie.

The movie was not a total disappointment but it is not what I expected. This is a mixed movie. May be some gay men can associate with this kind of material.

Movie Review: Searching for Entitlement in the Backwoods.
Summary: 1 Stars

Five self-indulgent p---- spend a weekend in the northen reaches of Canada. THERE IS NO STORY and there should be. The potential is here with good actors and an atmospheric location and cinematography. However, in spite of replaying certain scenes over to see if I missed something no solid story evolved and none of the frustratingly convoluted vignettes ever amounted to anything. This film fails to deliver. Worse still is the jumping into what should have been a powerful scene without any back story and no foreshadowing. For example: 1 The Sex Scene with Renee. Suddenly one of the five men is having sex with another guy's wife. But we have no idea if they even know one another let alone what lead up to the action. 2 The Through the Ice Scene. One character is found having fallen through the ice (was it suicide we don't know for sure, but we do know that the character was self destructive?) the solidly frozen lake, where hours before five men had played ice hockey in a cleared portion, is suddenly seen an ice melt even though it is late in the day presumably freezing hard. 3 The Tantalizing Flashback Scene(s) from a child's POV, an adult hunting and carrying a rifle -- the father perhaps - but we are never told what happened or why it is important and how it affected the family. Too many lose ends and five characters that despite a wide variety of circumstances are unable to enlist any enthusiasm or pity or even laughter.