Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Robert J. Maxwell There can't have been many more actresses than Sean Young who could so successfully blend beauty with sensuality. Unfortunately credible acting would have to be shoehorned into that description. She sounds like she's reading from cue cards in that breathless voice. On the other hand, maybe that's how she speaks offstage. Her offstage antics couldn't have helped her career. Michael Caine, on the other hand, is a believable person here, with his Cockney accent and rhyming slang. He has a deft posh accent too, as in "Zulu." He gives a leaden interview in "Breaking the Mold." Caine and Young are the principals of this somewhat confused thriller about shipping illegal arms to madmen in the desert. The film was shot only a year or two following the collapse of the USSR and it's sort of elegiac. The heavy, Ian Holm, gives good support as the secret agent (or something) who suffered traumatic role loss when the primary enemy disappeared in a puff of smoke like the devil in the third act of "Faust" and who has become corrupt and cynical. Bob Hoskins is in it too, as a good guy, but isn't around very long.I kind of liked the musical score. Caine loves jazz and owns a club that -- well, if you like bebop, you'll like the source music. He doesn't mind classical music either, "except Schönberg," which is okay with me.The film is a thriller about intrigues in high and low places, illicit love affairs, good guys and bad guys. There are some tense moments, notably next to electric train tracks at night, and again in a shipyard at Port of London, which has Caine running around in a maze of those huge pre-package containers designed to be lifted from the ship's cargo and fitted directly onto the backs of semis.All very efficient, but they took the romance out of being stevedore managing breakhold cargo. As a kid I thrilled while wandering around the docks in New York and pocketing rolls of cork from Portugal and cylinders of cinnamon from God knows what exotic port. Here, poor Caine must run frantically, he must run across the tops of the malignant containers, to escape the security unit that's in hot pursuit.It's rather enjoyable, especially if you don't place too many urgent demands on the logic of the plot.

dariuslanghoff As a bespectacled spy Michael Caine established a firm reputation as a low-key but determined government agent in FUNERAL IN BERLIN and MILLION DOLLAR BRAIN. Now he is Harry Sanders, a former MI6 agent trying to lead a quiet, unruffled existence as the owner of a seedy jazz club in Soho. Then Stacy, the glamorous wife of an Amnerican diplomat, bumps into his vehicle before moving into his bed.Before you can say "Hellzapoppin", Harry is up to his neck in a murder mystery following Stacy's plea to help in tracing a bothersome lover. The 'lover' turns out to be involved in a shady arms deal. Harry's old mate Detective Osgood is killed after a stakeout. As if things were not bad enough, the Old Bill thinks the whole affair is Harry's fault, and somebody intends to torture him for that ha has learned...There have been dafter plots, but seldom can they have felt so contrived as this. Sean Young seems too remarkably composed to have willingly thrown herself into the arms of a man so down-at-heel as Harry. Caine's talent is in keeping the audience's eyes on him while all the nonsense is going on around him, and he manages to steal all the best quips. The whole picture as such however, is far from being rewarding.

diorio2001 I had passed an eye over this video sitting on the shelf at the local video store several times. Although I consider myself to be a Michael Caine fan, I neglected to ever rent BLUE ICE, because of poor reviews and ratings. The other day however I was once again at the video store and this time decided to check out this film. I was extremely surprised (in a good way) at BLUE ICE. I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was. The plot was a little bit hard to swallow, but all spy movies are like that. I thought the cinematography was wonderful and I especially like the intriguing, yet bizarre torture scene montage.Michael Caine played an ex-spy and despite his age and not being in great shape, Sir Michael pulled off a wonderful performance. The movie was so interesting (though confusing at parts) I can honestly say that I wasn't bored for a minute. Sean Young's performance wasn't too impressing, but luckily it wasn't so terrible that it deterred my interest in the movie. Ian Holm and Bob Hoskins some good scenes, but I wish that their parts were bigger.BLUE ICE isn't Michael Caine's best movie, but God knows, it's not his worst either. All-in-all I give BLUE ICE 3 ½ out of 5.

charlottesweb Straining desperately to recreate the atmosphere of the Harry Palmer films of the 1960s, Blue Ice even includes a surreal but dreadful torture scene. It would have been fine if not for a predictable plot and a script which at times is simply terrible - a police interrogation scene begins with the line: `For the last time, who are you working for?' Plus sides: Sean Young's bottom makes another screen appearance (nudity being about the only memorable aspect she brings to any of her roles) and there's a moderately exciting denouement on the docks.