Blue Ice (Region 2)

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A lot of people seem to 'pan' this film, and although it is not the best it is certainly not as bad as the current 5.2 rating on here. Not a natural killer the driver reluctantly raises his machine gun and empties the magazine into the terrorist who now lies dead , the victim of a ruthless execution The whole film is anchored by yet another superb Michael Caine show as Harry Anders (could this Harry be related to the Harry Palmer that Caine portrayed in several films in the 1960s?) After a rather caricature-like start with an accident that sets the ball rolling for some intricate espionage stuff, we find Caine return - without wishing to do so - to spying and assassination routines. The story is Ok but the script, music score and editing did not help, it seemed a kind of hotch potch, it would have helped with better continuity and longer/more of a story-line, with a better script and direction and with a bit more style and content this could have been a classic similar to the Harry Palmer films Michael Caine made previously. Ian Holm also delivers a quietly menacing performance as a "humble baronet" who heads some British secret service and thinks nothing of writing off lives.

Michael Caine tries to play a Harry Palmer clone but unfortunately since it's a movie from the early 1990s it's obvious he just took the part for the pay cheque and it'd be a few more years until he started to choose his parts more carefully

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What's Blue Ice ? According to this movie it's excrement that comes out from passing airliners . You wouldn't want to be below an overhead jet when someone flushes the loo . Come to think of it you really wouldn't want to watch this movie either unless there was absolutely nothing else on Blue Ice is a 1992 crime thriller film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Michael Caine and Sean Young.

Regarding Bob Hoskins small role...he and Caine have been lifelong friends and this is just one more of a number of pictures they have done together and to suggest that Hoskins has "ruined" his career is just ludicrous.The man continues to turn in outstanding performances in A-list films and top of the line independents. See MRS. HENDERSON PRESNETS. Harry Anders (Michael Caine) is a retired British Secret Service agent. He evidently was forced to retire a decade ago...and why isn't particularly clear. Since then, he's opened a jazz nightclub and is living a pretty normal life. However, when a pretty and very horney woman (Sean Young) throws herself at him, things get complicated. First, she turns out to be the wife of the American ambassador. Second, she asks him to do her a favor and all sorts of unforeseen consequences result...along with a lot of murder. Michael Caine plays a former British agent with a penchant for jazz, crowded bars, and mysterious women. In his retirement, he owns a very successful nightclub, and when he meets Sean Young, he's smitten by her appeal and puts on the moves. They have a pretty hot-and-heavy romance—as hot and heavy as things get in 1992—but then she invites him to a classy party with lots of dignitaries. It turns out she's married to the American ambassador! What else is she hiding? According to the credits, the character of Harry Anders is based on the Ted Allbeury character Tad Anders. The character was featured in Allbeury's novels Snowball, Palomino Blonde and The Judas Factor. In the books he is described as being of Polish-British descent, while in the movie he is portrayed as English. The name is also an allusion to Harry Palmer, a British spy whom Caine portrayed in an earlier series of films.

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The band in Harry's club is portrayed by a number of accomplished musicians, including Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts: [2]