Movie #964 "Black Coal, Thin Ice" was another movie we saw at the Chicago film festival, and parts of it were interesting (like the plot), but other parts were really odd.... odd shots (like one with the detective kicking a bottle down a flight of stairs, or another one of a proprietor of a casino laughing so hard she falls into a bathtub and continues laughing.....it doesn't say this below, but I thought the movie was trying to be like a film noir that the United States might do, like a Coen brothers' film like "Fargo", but it wasn't successful. It had a hard time getting the mood across, and also a hard time with the humor and going in and out of a funny mood. The acting isn't that good either. Another thing I noticed is that the detective looks a lot like the bad guy, and the woman at the opening looks a lot like the woman in the rest of the film, so it made me think (and waste my time) more trying to connect the opening to the end because I thought they were the same woman at times. But I thought there was enough to like in it to give it a 3, so I do. But this is one you could have missed (and probably did! hah!)
Black Coal, Thin Ice2014NR I'd give it 3 stars out of 5.
A police officer looking into a series of suspicious murders discovers that the killings have one thing in common: each victim was romantically linked to a woman whose husband died five years earlier.
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