Product Details

• Actors: Sean Astin, Bruce Campbell, Stacy Keach, Suzanne Turner, Sandra J. Abatiell
• Directors: David Giancola
• Writers: Hasso Wuerslin
• Producers: Karen Preus, Peter Beckwith
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Mti Home Video
• DVD Release Date: April 29, 2003
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00008H2MY
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,329 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Icebreaker" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

It's all fun and games at the Killington Ski Resort until malicious terrorists take over and hold the ski lodge hostage using a nuclear device. Stuck up in the mountains with no police around to help the burden of protection falls to the local ski patrol and ski bum Matt Foster (Sean Astin) is the man who needs to muster up the courage to overtake the terrorists. Bruce Campbell (EVIL DEAD series) stars as the sinister leader of the terrorists.System Requirements:Running Time: 90 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/CRIME Rating: PG-13 UPC: 039414581331 Manufacturer No: MTIE8133DVD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars SKI BUM VS. THE EVIL DEAD, June 5, 2004

By	Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Before attaining superstar status in THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY, Sean Astin starred in this straight to video thriller. Sean plays Matt, a "ski bum" who works at the Killington Ski Resort. His boss hates him; he's going to ask his girlfriend's father for his daughter's hand, and of course, the dad hates him, too. Meanwhile, a plane carrying radioactive plutonium crashes at the resort...this plane of course was hijacked by a member of a terrorist group, headed by the crazed Paul Grieger.

Astin plays Matt convincingly, although nowhere as near as well as Sam in the Rings trilogy. Painstakingly awful and surprisingly so is Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead) who plays the terrorist leader. Evidently dying of cancer, the baldpated Campbell delivers his lines as if he had just memorized them.
Stacy Keach collects a paycheck as the girl's rich father. Suzanne Turner is pretty bad, too, as Matt's girlfriend. She always looks like she's trying to remember her lines. The actors who played Beck, the forest ranger and Clay, the resort manager are a hoot and enliven the film greatly.

The ski scenes are pretty effective, but will never make us forget ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE.

One big plot hole is why Campbell is doing this...he gives Astin a video to take to the press, but we never see it, so hence we're left with a philosophical psychobabble near the end by the worldweary Campbell.

Not a terrible film, but more of a rental than a purchase.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It's time to kick it Tilly..., January 20, 2007

By	ODU (Norfolk, Va) - See all my reviews

Let me entertain you with 10 reasons to watch Icebreaker, thus wasting 95 minutes of your precious life...

1. The movie starts with some ski resort scenes, you'd think you were watching the winter X-games sponsored by Mountain Dew (the advertising is everywhere!)Enjoy this ridiculously overdrawn out scene with some Beethoven symphony in the background
2. Is the Fig Newton loving bad guy in the beginning the little red headed bully from the Christmas Story movie?
3. Sean Astin escapes the clutches of the ill-acting Russian terrorists via snowboard. He weaves his way down the mountain and is able to throw in some "sick" snowboard moves (360's, footgrabs and such) after each opportune slope. The terrorists try to copy his moves as if this were a competition... silly terrorists, tricks are for Sean Astin.
4. The light-wristed resort manager Clay has a serious blinking problem but provides the best quotes.
5. One of the terrorists (the one with glasses) always has a smile on his face. It just makes me want to smile right back. He sure duped me though, I never would have suspected he was a bad guy.
6. It is a fierce competition of who deserves the worst acting award. Ultimately, the script writers should be ashamed and the cinematography is the worst!
7. Keep an eye out for a scene with Sean Astin and the forest ranger Beck laying in a snowy bunker preparing to break into the terrorist ruled resort. Sean Astin puts on his ski glove backwards!!!!
8. I could be wrong, but it appears that the ski-lift bomb that is about to blow up (in about 5 years) has an "On" and "Off" switch.
9. Only remember one black guy in the movie, and they made him a terrorist!
10. Sean Astin saves the day using a snowball! (don't mean to ruin the ending, but I couldn't keep it in)

And I didn't even mention Bruce Cambell. I am not sure if Icebreaker even deserves one star but this is undoubtedly my favorite movie to watch when I need a good laugh. I LOVE this movie!!!!

3.0 out of 5 stars Bruce Campbell made me root for the bad guy., October 10, 2008

By	Dustin E Proehl (Chillicothe, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Poor Sean Astin I keep thinking of him in the Lord of the Rings. As an action hero he really does not cut it. He is a great actor, but this role was all wrong. Then you have a bald Bruce Campbell as the evil terrorist. About half way through the movie I found myself rooting for him. That just ain't right. Then again, it is hard not to root for Bruce Campbell he is a living embodiment of an underdog.