Review of Icarus

Icarus (I) (2010)
7/10
I'll take that cigar now..If you don't mind.
8 October 2010
Warning: Spoilers
***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!
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