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Really well acted by the all star cast, and also written and directed just as well. A little slowly paced but this film still keeps your attention. Michael Shannon was outstanding in his role. 8/10 from me

Although this film has been out for a few years, I have only just seen it - and it is impressive. Michael Shannon's portrail of real-life hit man Richard Kuklinski is absolutely superb. You really feel drawn into his world at various stages of his 'career', including the conflicts between his chosen profession while trying to maintain some kind of normal family life. There are plenty of moments in this film that will take you by surprise on your journey with the character. This film is well worth setting aside time to watch so you become fully engrossed in the story.

My interest in 'The Iceman' came from watching the prison interviews he did in a documentary by HBO. I then decided to buy the book based on his life and found that although parts may have been fictionalised, it was a brilliant read. And finally to the movie. If you have read the book by Phillip Carlo, then don't watch this movie. The Acting in itself throughout the movie is not bad, but way in which the movie is laid out is potentially the worst I have ever seen. There is no character development, no real plot, the story told through out the movie jumps from one scene to another without any explanation as to who the new characters are and why they are suddenly in the story. Everything feels so rushed. Its as if the director has read the book, and couldn't decide which parts to focus on, so decided he would just focus on the main murders which kluklinski was responsible for. Why not make the movie a 3.5 hr casino type movie where the plot can be built upon and not rushed? At least then, we could have seen the early days of Richard, the reasons for him turning out the way he did etc. The movie as I suspected was a let down, but a lot bigger let down than i ever foreseen. Word of advice, don't watch this.

Having read and seen the documentary about The Iceman I was a little scared that they would have gone all Hollywood on it but I was pleasantly surprised. A few details of his life were not accurate, but the movie does not focus on that anyhow. What it did do, was to show the man as what I would have imagined him as. Anyone that has seen the movie I'd recommend that you google the documentary about him. In the final scene of the movie Michael Shannon manages to catch his persona insanely well. Almost gave me the chills how well he acted in the last scene, not to say the whole movie. Hands down one of the best depicted movies on a real world person. And if you haven't seen the documentary watch it first, it won't spoil the movie but it will give you a reference point on the man.

I'm sorry, but this was an awful, awful adaptation. I read the book by Phillip Carlo, and it was an incredible wealth of information about Richard Kuklinski, probably too much to place in one movie, but this movie barely touched the true Richard Kuklinski's story. As a writer, I expected something more in the line of a Goodfellas, or Godfather movie, because the book is that interesting and complex. I expected more because the story and material was completely available, and then some. Not only Kuklinski, but his father, mother, and younger life were missing, the making of the killer, his first kill, the large amounts of money he made and spent, his travels abroad and around the US, and his methods for evading detection for so many years. And so much more I can't even think about. Now maybe this movie was too violent for the general public. So why make it if it's not going to be accurate (it is vague at best)? Go make damn Disney movies instead. What a loss for the movie viewing public. It should have been a great! I don't suppose Scorsese would consider doing a version of this biography...

I've read the book which was out standing, I also saw the 3 interviews on HBO which were absolutely amazing, however the movie was a complete let down. It didn't really show how bad kuklinski's father treated him as a kid by continuously beating him. It didn't show how he was continuously beaten as kid by the local bully, until his father made him fight back. It didn't show you how he left his victims to be eaten by rats because his contractors wanted them to suffer. It didn't show you that he used to kill tramps regularly to improve his killing techniques. It didn't show when he shot a guy in the face trying out his new toy..A crossbow. It also didn't show the notorious clicking sound he made when he was getting angry. All in all it was a very poorly thought out movie