BLUE ICE (1992) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Russell Mulcahy
Michael Caine, Sean Young, Ian Holm,
Bobby Short, Jack Shepherd, Phil Davis,
Bob Hoskins, Alun Armstrong, Patricia Hayes
Faint echoes of "Casablanca", with Michael Caine as a nightclub owner and retired secret agent who dusts off some of the skills he learned in the trade when people around him start turning up dead. Naturally, there's a woman involved. This is about one-half a real good movie and one-half a merely routine one, and Caine gives it about what it deserves, nothing more, nothing less. Bobby Short noodles a few tunes at the piano - Dooley Wilson being no longer available - and Charlie Watts sits in with the jazz band at Caine's club.
