Mister Frost

Throughout this movie, the best thing, by far, is the performance of Jeff Goldblum. But, I'm not quite sure it's enough to carry this film. It tries very hard to be very stylish and odd and freaky, but falls short with a concept that, done correctly, could have been quite intense. The picture is intentionally very subtle, but is riddled at times with clichéd horror movie tactics that don't quite fit. It almost feels as if the only person who put any effort into their performance was Goldblum and that the director and writer felt that simply being stylish and setting a dark undertone would be enough. Goldblum's portrayal of The Prince of Darkness has to be the quirkiest portrayal ever put on film. He fills the performance with a subtle charisma and his usual odd behavior and I was really hoping that he would just rise up at the end of the film and kill all of the other actors with a grin or a raise of his eyebrow. All of the flaws of this film considered, it could have been saved by a really gripping ending... but there is none. The film builds slowly, mostly due to the performance of Goldblum, and you are lead to believe that we'll have some sort of great cataclysmic ending... but there is none... it just sort of ends. If you are a fan of Jeff Goldblum, you'll enjoy his performance. If not, you will probably find the film boring and tedious.