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2014 · action · adventure · sci-fi · comedy

Iceman

Directed by Law Wing-Cheong1h 44m2014
ElsewhereIMDb4.84kRT17%Metacritic32
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • surreal
  • redemptive
  • epic-stakes
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Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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An imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later, they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind.

Our read · Iceman (2014) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal action · adventure · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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