Nonureva Really Surprised!

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Majorthebys Charming and brutal

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

adonis98-743-186503 A Soviet-trained assassin is determined to escape his double life as a hitman and as a husband-father. Icarus or also known as The Killing Machine is a forgettable straight to dvd film that even Dolph Lundgren could not save from the boring and terrible script. The pacing of the film was also terribly slow and just all over the place plus the way it's filmed feels very cheap like it's some straight to tv movie or something. It also tries to be dramatic for sure but it doesn't truly ever achieve what it tries to be and that's it's is downfall and sin as well for sure. (4/10)

Paul Magne Haakonsen Sad to say that I had initially set my expectations low for this movie. Why? Well, it is a Dolph Lundgren movie after all, both starring and directed by the hulking Swede. But I am surprised at how good this movie was, so a big thumbs up to Lundgren on his achievement here and for blindsiding us with this movie. I am not saying that his movies are usually bad, they just tend to be a replica of the movie that came before. So you know what you would get already.The story in "Icarus" was actually quite good, and it managed to grasp the audience in a tight grip - or by gunpoint - and take them on a roller-coaster ride full of action.The acting in the movie was quite alright. Dolph Lundgren is, of course, right at home in this genre, but his co-stars were doing good jobs as well."Icarus" is definitely a bright moment in the movie history of Dolph Lundgren, and it is well-worth watching regardless if you are a fan of him or not.So this surprise of a movie is getting a six out of ten stars rating from me.

lemon_magic I remember seeing DL in "Red Scorpion" over 20 years ago, all excited about the way he was going to light up the screen in his first feature role...but coming out of the theater shaking my head in disappointment. And that continues to be the summary of his solo career.I really admire and like Dolph and wish he was a little more versatile or else could get some better parts. But he just can't carry a movie by himself - he has to have a partner or a cast of other tough guys to play off - "Showdown in Little Tokyo" with Brandon Lee is a good example of the former, and the remake of "The Expendables" is a good example of the latter. But make him the main lead, and it's 2nd rate city. (Michael Pare and Rutger Hauer have the same problem.) Dead giveaway that the director doesn't have any ideas of his own and only apes better, more original movies - at key points of high stress, he always (ALWAYS) resorts to jerky, grainy slow motion close up shots of Dolph. (One more reason why Tony Scott, who seems to have invented the trick and actually does this kind of thing effectively, must be barred from ever coming up with new visual gimmicks. Whatever he comes up with first, lesser directors steal and beat it to death in endless ripoffs later.) This movie...well, it has its moments, and Dolph gets off some decent lines, but it's just another exercise in black ops paranoia and noir gloom. Having seen it recently on cable, I've concluded that there's no real reason to ever watch again. Sorry, Dolph, that your career has come to this...but at least you're probably still making better money as an actor than you ever would have as an engineer.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Better then you would have expected from a direct to DVD action flick with Dolph Lundgren as Eddie Genn/KGB code name Icarus taking things into his own hands when he's set up by his bosses and controller to be hit when his career as a hit man for the Russian Mafia is blown.This all happened when Genn was given a job to do in Hong Kong that in the end exposed his true identity when one of the persons involved survived and was able to finger him. Now back home in the US at his job as a financial investor Genn is visited by a Mr. Grahm, David Lewis, who by talking to him about investing in Hong Kong real estate tips Genn off that his days as a investment broker are numbered.***SPOILERS*** At first just being suspicious Genn soon realizes that he's being set up for the kill when his controller Mrs.Kerr Samantha Ferris, gives him an assignment or hit-job in Miami that's in fact to be his very last! Non-stop action with Eddie Genn giving as good as he takes in the movie as he's being tracked down by both sides of the law, the Russian Mafia and FBI/CIA, for immediate termination.After surviving a slew of bloodbaths with his both wife and 5 year old daughter Joey & Taylor, Stefanie Von Pfetten & Katelyn Mager, kidnapped and almost killed in the process the final showdown between Genn and those out to get him comes down to him meeting his former and fellow KGB Agent Valdin, who's life Genn saved, played by an almost unorganizable Bo Svenson. I didn't realize that he was in the movie or who he played in it until I read the films closing credits! The final shoot-out tops all the others in the movie with at first Genn, who's job was to knock off Vadin, letting down his guard and getting captured by the Valdin hoodlums! But in the end the Cohiba Havana cigar, costing as much as $35.00 a piece, that Valdin offered Genn that he at first turned down, Genn had given up smoking, turned out to be a life saver for him!