I had never heard of Director Russell Mulcahy but, after watching BLUE ICE (1992), I believe he deserves attention.
The whole film is anchored by yet another superb Michael Caine show as Harry Anders (could this Harry be related to the Harry Palmer that Caine portrayed in several films in the 1960s?) After a rather caricature-like start with an accident that sets the ball rolling for some intricate espionage stuff, we find Caine return - without wishing to do so - to spying and assassination routines.
He is accompanied by the facially angelical and bodily gorgeous Sean Young, then beginning her tiff with Hollywood producers that ultimately saw her out of what appeared to be a promising career. In fact, the feeling at the time was that she had come to do BLUE ICE in the UK because she had become persona non grata in Hollywood.
Ian Holm also delivers a quietly menacing performance as a "humble baronet" who heads some British secret service and thinks nothing of writing off lives.
Good cinematography, sharp dialogue. Definitely worth watching, despite some unevenness in continuity and a chase in the Port of London that Caine does not seem sufficiently fit for, and includes rather large mobile cranes that just look too large and unwieldy.
The whole film is anchored by yet another superb Michael Caine show as Harry Anders (could this Harry be related to the Harry Palmer that Caine portrayed in several films in the 1960s?) After a rather caricature-like start with an accident that sets the ball rolling for some intricate espionage stuff, we find Caine return - without wishing to do so - to spying and assassination routines.
He is accompanied by the facially angelical and bodily gorgeous Sean Young, then beginning her tiff with Hollywood producers that ultimately saw her out of what appeared to be a promising career. In fact, the feeling at the time was that she had come to do BLUE ICE in the UK because she had become persona non grata in Hollywood.
Ian Holm also delivers a quietly menacing performance as a "humble baronet" who heads some British secret service and thinks nothing of writing off lives.
Good cinematography, sharp dialogue. Definitely worth watching, despite some unevenness in continuity and a chase in the Port of London that Caine does not seem sufficiently fit for, and includes rather large mobile cranes that just look too large and unwieldy.