The Ice Cream Truck

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10/05/2021 "Is it so wrong, to make it a bit special for the little kids?" A too-horny middle-aged woman moves to suburbs prior to her husband and children arriving to join her. Initially, the suburb appears normal enough, if even for the strangely-annoying neighbourhood wives. The presence of an old-timey ice cream truck which crawls the neighbourhood streets regularly is off-putting to the new resident, but little does she know the ice cream man ices the neighbours. Rather boring, with zero likable characters, I soon started rooting for the ice cream man. Just watch "Ice Cream Man" instead. See more 07/27/2021 Good film until the disappointing ending. Great characters and fairly comedic. See more 03/02/2021 Unfolds at a glacial pace, and then delivers an ending that might leave a lot of people wondering "is that it?". Perfectly watchable, though. See more 01/27/2021 Marisma una de las peores películas que he visto en mi bida See more 11/21/2020 May appeal to those with the critical faculties of a pot noodle. See more 07/31/2020 I'm giving it one star for at least it's production quality. I'm not going to get into a lot of fine detail on this review, I just suggest you watch the movie yourself and see what you think. But, this is my take on it and no I don't like this movie at all. To me this was a guilty pleasure watch because of the odd gimmick of it being about a killer Ice Cream Man. If you want a better movie to watch, check out "Ice Cream Man" with Clint Howard. I initially decided to watch it because of not only the guilty pleasure side of it, but also the (at the time) 71% rating that it had. This was a real let down. So the movie focuses mainly around a writer/mother who decided to move back to the suburbs while her husband and children are with her husband wrapping up things at her previous home location/state. When I heard that my initial question was "Why were the kids not even with her?". It's different, I'll give it that but there is no real reason as to why she had to move back alone temporarily while waiting for the rest of her family to get there. Then she encounters her first neighbor and she comes odd, as well as the other women in this neighborhood that you will realize and nothing really comes of it. We are also introduced to the main antagonist of the film, the Ice Cream Man. There isn't really much to go on about his character, besides he is killing random people for no odd reason and it's three times throughout the film. There are various characters thrown in this, some that have no real development or purpose and one that does (surprise, it's the boy toy/love interest). It was laid down so thick throughout the film with the interaction between the protagonist and the love interest that the main character was going to cheat on her husband (as it was suggested oddly enough to her by one of the housewives). I would have been surprised if she didn't actually commit adultery on her husband, which for a moment I thought she wasn't. It kinda got annoying. I found myself at a point constantly saying "will you just get it over already". I wasn't quite sure what this film wanted to be, from the cover and the premise it seemed like a horror movie but it kept shifting tones. There were also a couple shots that lingered a lot longer than they should have as well, which disengaged me from the film. Wrapping this up, the ending to me was so...tacked on, possibly rushed. The set up was odd and the initial event of her meeting her love interest and having sex in a playground at night was hard to wrap my mind around. Some of the choices made by characters towards the climax were really confusing as there were clearly good decisions, yet the complete and utter opposite was made. This comes around to the the ending of the film where it's a twist and some characters that were presumed dead are not as well as her family arriving. This is where I'm sure all of us/most of us are going to get confused. I was taken back for a bit watching the ending and started realizing that her writing career and her trying to write a book may have been the answer for this ending. I understand probably what the director was going for about this, but if that's even the case it falls flat because there are then plot holes making the connection odd in my opinion. Ultimately, I didn't like this film. I feel if there was a singular direction given on this project it would have done better in my eyes or portrayed a solid plot. I was just in question about so many things once the film was done. Why were the neighbors acting so strange? What's up with the delivery guy who practically serves almost no purpose to this film whatsoever? Was this in her head? If so, why did it end like it did? What was the motivation for the killer? Why, the hell did you linger on a shot of him peeing in a toilet for what seemed like 5 minutes? See more Read all reviews

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