The Ice Harvest
| Year: | 2005 |
| Production Co: | Focus Features |
| Director: | Harold Ramis |
| Cast: | John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Platt, Connie Neilsen, Randy Quaid |
I expected a lot more from this flat heist comedy. Cusack and Thornton are two white collar crims who commit their sting on Christmas eve, intending to lay low for a day or two and then skip town.
But a seamy group of characters, from a local mob boss to an unbelievably sexy lawyer, gradually bring their plans undone until they don't even trust each other.
Huge subplots - such as that of Cusack's friend Platt, now married to Cusack's ex-wife - go nowhere, and you wonder at times what movie you're supposed to be watching.
The violence is too jarring to belong in a comedy, and it's not particularly funny either. Everyone involved has done much better.