Dreadful waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (3 January 2014)

This is one of the least rewarding films I have ever seen - and I sat through "The Ice Cream Man"
This is like a very laboured masturbation wearing an uncomfortable sequin glove, only it's the Director who is having the good time while the Producer massages his prostate and you, as the viewer, are on your knees in front of him and all you get for you patience is a slimy face.
I don't really want to give spoilers because some people seem to have enjoyed this rubbish but look out for the pointless mask, the foolish abandonment of any kind of reward and the "hero's" indestructible headlights.
I feel genuinely sorry for the whole cast, particularly the beautiful Carey Mulligan and the under-rated Ron Perlman.
The script-writer must have been laughing all the way to the bank. Call it style, call it tension-building but frankly there must be less than two hundred words of dialogue in the whole film and those that are said are hackneyed, insubstantial and ridiculous. None of the characters are applaudable, they all deserve far worse than they get and there is absolutely no way that this would be the end of such a story. Left open for a sequel? I sincerely hope not.