Harvest, The
Combined Rating: 51% (S:51%; P:53%) - The
Ice Harvest is only a mere 88 minutes long and yet the film still feels padded
and draggy. The drunken Oliver Platt-heavy middle is a generously paced muddle,
and though its rather funny its also rather extraneous. The Ice Harvest is
really a handful of great moments that dont add up to a satisfying whole. The
movie is really episodic and too many of those episodes have little bearing on
the plot. Character betrayals are spelled out to us and Ramis seems to lose
interest in his own film as it slides further and further into dangerous
territory. The Ice Harvest cant commit to whatever it wants to be and the
audience is the one to suffer. Read the book instead. Its only 224
pages.
Ice Harvest is only a mere 88 minutes long and yet the film still feels padded
and draggy. The drunken Oliver Platt-heavy middle is a generously paced muddle,
and though its rather funny its also rather extraneous. The Ice Harvest is
really a handful of great moments that dont add up to a satisfying whole. The
movie is really episodic and too many of those episodes have little bearing on
the plot. Character betrayals are spelled out to us and Ramis seems to lose
interest in his own film as it slides further and further into dangerous
territory. The Ice Harvest cant commit to whatever it wants to be and the
audience is the one to suffer. Read the book instead. Its only 224
pages.