The Frozen Ground
The Frozen Ground
R | 23 August 2013 (USA)
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An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Nazz86 Boring as hell, terrible acting.Nick Cage is awful.
adonis98-743-186503 An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events. The Frozen Ground is easily one of Cage's most underrated works it's full of intense and great performances by Nicolas Cage himself, John Cusack and even Vanessa Hudgens. The whole "based on true life events" is very shocking and well made as for the characters themselves they were excellent. My only flaws is that they should take a bit more time and wait in order to show who the murderer is and also 50 Cent was awful like always but other than that this was a great film and easily one of the best that Cage has starred from recent memory.
jb_campo I liked Frozen Ground. It is a pretty good movie. Cage delivers his typical downplayed character. John Cusack was very good as the alleged bad guy. The lead woman actress who played the young prostitute was very good too. The story does its best to keep you guessing, and they leveraged the stupidity of the young girl to ratchet up suspense as best as possible. This is worth a view.Not sure if the town was filmed in the real Anchorage, but the airplane scenes and snowy mountain vistas were impressive, if but to convey that out here, if you're in trouble, ain't no one gonna find out, which unfortunately resonated throughout the film.Makes me think thrice about wanting to visit Anchorage though.
NateWatchesCoolMovies The Frozen Ground is a chilling, down to earth, somber true crime story set in the slimy underbelly of Anchorage, and the ice tundras of the rural Alaskan areas. Nicolas Cage turns off the ham and plays it straight as Alaska State Trooper Jack Halcombe. When a terrified 17 year old prostitute (Vanessa Hudgens) is discovered chained up in an abandoned apartment, she tells authorities a wild tale of how she was abducted, tortured and almost killed by a madman. The only problem: this madman is Robert Hansen (John Cusack), a respected business owner and family man without a ghost of a criminal record. No proof can be found, no one believes the poor strung out girl, and the trail goes cold. But not for Halcombe. He doggedly pursues lead after lead, forming a shaky bond with Hudgens to go after Hansen and prove what he suspects, and is true: Hansen is a twisted serial killer guilty of over a dozen unsolved murders. The film drops cheap tricks and settles into an unconventionally paced, straightfaced, scary account of catching this monster. Cage is excellent as the determined trooper who uses keen intellect and unflinching pathos to flush Hansen out. Cusack is creepy as hell, worming his way into your psyche with his dank, vile characterization, it's the scariest work I've ever seen from him. The performance of the film comes from Hudgens though. She brings bruised, hardened heart to the role, objectively playing this broken, lost soul with a doe eyed, fearless frenzy that I didn't know she was capable of. There's a subtle bunch of supporting cameos, including Jodi Lynn O Keefe, Dean Norris, Michael Mcgrady, Brad William Henke, Radha Mitchell, Kevin Dunn, and 50 Cent wearing a ridiculous mullet. It's an icy slow burner, almost like the moody 1970's procedural, with a laconic pace all its own that nicely sets it apart from other similar movies. It also gives fair tribute to the real life victims and their families, never deviating into exploitation or wanton carnage, but always maintaining a frank, earnest, up front mentality that often is scarily similar to real life. Definitely worth checking out.