This will be a relatively short review, reason being, whether you know this or not, you have seen this movie before.
Here we go; Take Die Hard, replace Bruce Willis with Sean Astin. Now replace Alan Rickman with Bruce Campbell. Take them out of the sky scrapper and put them on a mountain, and just for good measure, throw in a dash of “Better Off Dead”. Mix wet ingredients together and bake for a little over an hour and you have Icebreaker.
Seriously, it’s that simple. Sean Astin plays a ski patrol … I dunno… officer I guess, and he is trying to marry Meg. Meg is a well off daughter of an even more well off man. Matt (Astin) was going to ask dad (Stacey Keach) for his daughters hand in marriage but terrorists interrupt that little get together. Bruce Campbell plays a (bald oddly enough) terrorist leader that has some radioactive plutonium for some reason or another and the plane carrying it went down on a mountain near, wait for it… Killington Resort Hotel.
As the movie goes on Matt is then put into a position where he has to save, well… everyone. My favorite parts of this movie were the chase scenes. We are shown Sean Astin (supposedly) on a snowboard flying down a mountain. That would be all easy enough to believe, if they wouldn’t keep showing not only the same clip of him but a clip that contains obviously what ever was towing and holding Astin up. Secondly he is being chased by a guy with an automatic weapon. This guy is literally following about six feet behind him firing his weapon, one shot at a time and never getting anywhere close to him. Awesome. Also, apparently you can fire Stinger missiles from the hip now, who knew.
The entire movie I could never tell if it was trying to be a serious action movie, or a comedy. The main villain being Bruce Campbell didn’t help at all. Even with all the “gun play” involved in this flick there was always a weird joke in there somewhere. As an example; At the end of the movie Campbell is about to blow up the plutonium, and Astin throws a snowball at him. It’s moments like that where I was the most confused. This was just one of those movies that seems like a perfect fit for something like a lazy Sunday afternoon. The most amazing thing is that this was made just a YEAR before Astin would go on to star in the LOTR trilogy. After watching Icebreaker, I can only imagine that the casting director for LOTR never saw this one either.
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