As usual it's all about money. Michael Caine has no interest in it as an old discharged intelligence agent running a jazz club with cool jazz all through the film, but the girl unintentionally crashing into his car, with whom he gets involved, has had some dangerous contacts, which prove contagious, so Michael Caine finds himself in a mess of a soup involving arms sales on a high and forbidden level, and before he gets to understand anything about it, all his friends have already been killed. This is a difficult soup to get out of, but Michael Caine at least has his fists and knows how to handle guns when needed, and they will here come in need indeed. Bob Hoskins has a small part, but he soon gets out of it, while Ian Holm here plays a part very different from the good old Bilbo. Sean Young is the lady in question and she certainly has no competition, apart maybe from old Patricia Hayes, a veteran from the good old days, and this ought to have been one of her last performances. She actually introduces the show bringing on the theme of 'blue ice', which is defined as something big and heavy which falls down on you from the sky to never make your life the same again. We never learn who the dead beloved was who is buried from the start after having been struck by 'blue ice'.
Blue Ice
(1992)
Michael Caine falls in love with young wife of old American ambassador and gets into trouble
22 November 2022