Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Iceman’

Written by Scott Edwards

​Discovering something that nobody has ever found before can be life changing. Being the first person to set eyes on something new, you don’t know what to expect and everything from there on is brand new to the world. Once word gets out and the world has found out what you have, they will send cameras and reporters to document everything about it, making you a star in your field. This kind of fame is wanted by so many people, but if you have found something that the world is not ready for, you may want to keep it to yourself to make sure that the message you send out will not harm you or any of your loved ones.

During a dig in the arctic, a research team has uncovered another life form from the ice. Putting a hold on everything, they transport the body back to the lab to find out what it really is. After being able to uncover a mammoth, the group has high hopes in what they have found, since it is looking more and more like a man. Cutting the ice back, the group sees that it is a Neanderthal and are ready to start performing tests on the caveman to see what he was doing so far north from his natural habitat.

Doctor Shephard watches as the medical team starts to do their thing, trying to find out what happened to the iceman so many years ago. When Doctor Brady watches the monitors when injecting synthetic blood into the caveman, unexpected results start popping up on her screen. Seeing that the man has active brain waves, the group must now try to resuscitate him, not only for the sake of science, but because he is alive. Knowing that there is something special about this frozen man, the group wants to run tests on him, along with cutting him up and sending his parts all over the world to be analyzed, but Shephard knows that this is the wrong thing to do since they can learn so much from the forty-thousand year old man.

Convincing Brady and her team to clear out the bear paddock, the area is conformed to a lush jungle where the iceman can be observed. But the iceman starts to find things around his living area that are new to him and sees that he is not alone in his new world.  Not wanting the experiment to end, Shephard decides that he will join the iceman in his confines and gains the old man’s trust. Not being able to communicate with him, but finding out that his name is Charlie, Shephard knows that the breakthroughs will be monstrous and needs more help. As Shephard seems to get what he wants, the science team continues to run tests on Charlie, since he is the first frozen mammal to be resuscitated successfully. Shephard does not believe that this is right and wants to find a way to free his new friend before the scientists get what they want, a living subject to be shown to the entire world.

Not a bad movie that shows how one man’s morals should win outright when being challenged by a greater force. Watching as Charlie becomes alive again, he quickly finds out that he is in a place where he does not belong and with his new friend Shephard, he may be able to find a way out one way or another. The science crews’ constant picking on Shephard is hilarious in this movie, since he seems to be their own caveman, and it never ends, even when Shephard is making massive strives with Charlie. The interactions between Charlie and Shephard are great and the trust between the two grows at an alarming rate. I really wish that Charlie got a better look around the labs when he was able to free himself and learn something about the time he was in, but alas, it was not his destiny, at least not in this movie.

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