Boring as hell, terrible acting.Nick Cage is awful.

***SPOILERS**** Director Scott Walker purposely filmed the movie "On Frozen Ground" at the end of fall and into early winter season in Alaska just to get the feel of the upcoming darkness that we see during the entire length on the movie. With the daylight at little as possible that makes the film much more gloomy then the actual and real story that took place for some 12 years-from 1971 to 1983-that its about. What the film is about is a Ted Bundy like killer who targeted women as if they were wild game kidnapping raping and then flying, in his private plane, them out into the woods and letting them loose for him to hunt down and kill them.There's no secret to who the killer is upstanding citizen husband & father Robert Hansen,John Cusack, who's got this thing about women that he has to act out in killing them. That's because of an unfortunate experience he had in his youth when he was soundly rejected, in trying to make out, by them. Masking his violent hatred of the opposite sex Hansen went as far as getting married to look normal as a loving and bible thumping family man married with two children but use that as a front to hide what he's really all about. It's Alasken state trooper Jack Halcombe, Nicolas Cage, who connects the dotes in a number of murders that were committed over the last 12 years to finally track Hansen down.***SPOILERS*** The key piece of the puzzle to Hansen's killing spree is 17 year old runaway prostitute Cindy Paulson, Vanessa Hudgens, who was kidnapped by Hansen but escaped to tell about it as well as identify him. With no help at all from the local Anchorage Alasken police Halcombe went out on his own to not only track down Hansen, whom he knew were he was, but uncover the evidence that could convict him. This has Hansen go for broke in trying to find and murder Cindy to keep her mouth shut. Going so far as getting Cindy's pimp Clate Johnson, 50 Cent, whom he later had murdered to turn her over to him for special treatment. It was in losing his cool it's Hansen who under relentless interrogation by Halcombe who finally cracked and admitted his guilt just after Cindy was brought into the interrogation room to identify him as her kidnapper. Given a 461 year sentence behind bars with no chance of parole Hansen passed away in prison in 2014-a year after "On Frozen Ground" was released-after serving only 31 years of the 461 years time he was given by the court.

I liked Frozen Ground. It is a pretty good movie. Cage delivers his typical downplayed character. John Cusack was very good as the alleged bad guy. The lead woman actress who played the young prostitute was very good too. The story does its best to keep you guessing, and they leveraged the stupidity of the young girl to ratchet up suspense as best as possible. This is worth a view.Not sure if the town was filmed in the real Anchorage, but the airplane scenes and snowy mountain vistas were impressive, if but to convey that out here, if you're in trouble, ain't no one gonna find out, which unfortunately resonated throughout the film.Makes me think thrice about wanting to visit Anchorage though.

Really good crime thriller which keeps you hooked right until the end and still guessing what the outcome will be.Some parts can be quite difficult to watch as they can be quite disturbing. However, the role of Robert Hansen is played excellently by John Cusack, who fits into the character's personality perfectly.The story line is gripping with some exciting twists and turns. It would have been better if there was longer time spent finding the right suspect and with other possible culprits rather than just knowing it was Robert Hansen from the beginning but other than that it was a great movie to watch.Would highly recommend to anyone, especially those who enjoy crime thrillers.