Ordinary Guy Movie Review

The Frozen Ground (2013) 2.5 out of  5 stars





The hunt for a serial killer is on. And so it the hunt for a good movie, because this one wasn't very good.

For a first time feature writer and director, Scott Walker adequately manages to tell you a story , but I'm not sure which genre this movie fell under. Is it a thriller? A suspense? If any, I'd have to say it's a crime drama because there were definitely no thrills or suspense. It barely qualifies as a drama. There's more suspense in a T.V. Crime drama.

Even though the movie is based on a true story, I almost knew everything that was going to happen after watching it for 15 minutes, and I know nothing of the actual events that inspired this film. There were no twists or turns, just a straight line of how this killer got caught.

John Cusack

Maybe it's because I like him as an actor, but the only redeming quality about this movie was John Cusack. He plays the part of Robert Hansen, the serial killer. Of all the characters in the movie, he's the one I cared about the most, and he plays the bad guy. He did a good, not great, job of expressing the emotions of a man's mind that most of us will never understand. For that reason, I gave this movie an extra half star. As for Nicholas Cage? Eh... That's pretty much all I can say about him. He seems to play his parts the same way in most of his movies. I'm not very impressed with him in this one. I do have to say that Vanessa Hudgens did do a pretty good job of playing the drug addicted prostitute Cindy Paulson in this one, but after a while, I gave up caring about her character.

Nicholas Cage

Without any real action or suspense, this 105 minute movie seemed more like it was over 2 hours. For me, I was hoping for somthing a little more engaging. However, if you're a fan of Nick Cage or John Cusack you might want to give it a watch, just don't expect very much.