The Ice Harvest (2005)

Lawyer for the mob decides to steal about $2 million from his boss on the brink of a Christmas Eve ice storm. He's got a partner who seems to have had little to do with the planning or execution and is simply around to hold the money - against the lawyer's wishes.

It seems to be aiming for noir with dark comedy, but the "dark" is often just mean or, worse, boring. Lots of topless dancers are thrown in for no reason -- except for the obvious "hey! boobs!" factor (as far as I can tell, anyway). The segment with Billy Bob and the trunk is lively and seems to promise that the film is, finally, going somewhere...but it ends abruptly and we go back to the main action or, rather, inaction.

I'm not really sure what I was expecting from this film...so how can I even be sure that it failed to meet my expectations? That's a bigger mystery than any of those the movie bothered to present.

C+