When he was captured, his wife and daughter claimed they had no clue what he did for a living (he had told them he was in Finance).

This guy had an internal switch he flipped from the street to the dining room table. Kuklinski was also a husband a father of two daughters who made up what appeared to be a lovely, normal family in suburban New Jersey. He was good at his job, but hardly a good guy.

Additionally, he often dismembered his victims and froze bodies and parts to prevent the actual time of death from being established. His missions were carried forth in cold-blooded, heartless and widely disparate manners. If you are unfamiliar with Kuklinski's story, he killed somewhere between 100-250 people. Shannon is no match for the physical size of Kuklinski, but his movements and the camera angles capture the powerful and imposing monster that he was. The movie is dominated by the hulking presence of Shannon as Richard Kuklinski. It makes a nice companion piece to the chilling 1992 documentary The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer. Writer/director Arial Vromen has adapted Anthony Bruno's novel for the screen, and wisely cast Michael Shannon in the lead. He is known as the mob's most prolific hit-man/contract killer. Richard Kuklinski's story is fascinating and frightening. They can be an effective way to highlight a particularly interesting story or person with details we might not otherwise access. Dramatizations are at their best when actual footage of the subject or event doesn't exist.

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