ICARUS / THE KILLING MACHINE (Dolph Lundgren, 2009)

[Jox]

ICARUS is finally heading CineTel's homepage with the trailer
http://www.cinetelfilms.com/home.php

[Jox]

ICARUS has just been rated 15 in Finland, it should be released soon in Scandinavia by Sandrew Metronome.
http://195.197.150.133/elokuvahaku/EH12 ... &lcid=1035

[Jox]

Good news HMH, the German distributor, is telling me that they are "improving the image quality". I hope this means they will correct the aspect ratio...

[MFS]

ICARUS has just been rated 15 in Finland, it's should be released soon in Scandinavia by Sandrew Metronome.
http://195.197.150.133/elokuvahaku/EH12 ... &lcid=1035

Finally!

[Jox]

http://www.listal.com/viewentry/490837/

[Geoff]

good write up.

[Jox]

You can tell the guy read my review first.

[Geoff]

Yes mate, I did think that I had read it somewhere before.

[Jox]

For those intererested, the main title song is "Smoking Gun" by the band Fall Of Envy.

[Geoff]

I was waititng to watch it to find out what the title track was? any good? did D have any involvement in it?

[Jox]

Not sure what you're asking Geoff?

[bomaz]

Not sure what you're asking Geoff?

I guess he's asking about the opening act song. But not sure.

[Geoff]

I had heard the the opening song was a good rock song and off the back of CP I was wondering if Dolph had had any involvement with the song (playing the drums in it)

Sorry if not clear.

[Jox]

I have to check but even if this is the kind of song that would have fit CP perfectly, I have a feeling Dolph actually doesn't have anything to do with it, but the producers do. Given the movie that D set out to do, my git feeling is I don't think this is what he had in mind and would have more likely featured an atmospheric music in the vein of the actual score.

[Mosquito]

I have watched Icarus yesterday and unfortunately I was pretty disappointed. Maybe it's my strong opposition against shaky cams and hectic cuts but those can ruin a whole movie for me. And boy was this cam shaky and - during fights - the cuts where hectic. I was reminded of Batman Begins and the last Bond movie where I had no clue what was going on during some of the fights. "Whose hand is that?" - "Whose chin was just hit?" Something like that. Dolph is an excellent fighter and there was no need to hide a lack of talent behind cuts that obscure everything. During all action scenes and some of the quiet scenes I kept thinking "FOR CRISSAKES GET A STEADYCAM AND FIRE THAT CUTTER!!!"

SPOILERS AHEAD!

Also, is it natural that a mother who doesn't know where here child is, just survived a shootout and finds out that her husband is a murderous lunatic, just stops worrying about the kid and wants sex with that stranger she used to think of as her (ex-) husband? And why did that domina wait with that killing attempt? There where plenty of better opportunities before.

I don't know. I really liked Command Performance, and a lot of people seem to like Icarus even better, right? I guess tastes vary. Sloppy writers, highly annoying shaky cam and unnecessary cuts. Oh and the violence? Gee, I dunno. The blood spray seemed forced from time to time. The stunt with the barbell in front of the kid and the nanny wasn't cool.

I liked his tie, though. And yes, Dolph looks good in a suit.

(5/10)