Richard's mother was also a callous, unpleasant person despite her zealous religious values she had no qualms about battering her children with a broom handle. After Stanley dealt Richard's brother Florian a particularly malicious beating, he died from his injuries the police were told that he fell down a flight of stairs. Stanley Kuklinski, his deeply cruel father, conditioned his son with the daily violence he inflicted upon his whole family. This is a fatal mistake, because it was his harrowing formative years that shaped Richard. His unspeakably awful childhood, for instance, is covered with an utterly perfunctory flashback scene that lasts for all of about 15 seconds. I appreciate that cramming one's life story into a screenplay can be a difficult task, however there are major flaws in the script that could have easily been avoided – the screenplay should've been scrapped and completely rewritten. It fails to develop both the narrative and subsequently the character of Richard Kuklinski, glossing over almost everything that made the book such an interesting read. The problem with the film is that it's awfully constructed it's all so terribly rushed. While the author had a habit of repeating himself and some of Richard's recollections seemed rather dubious in places, Carlo's lengthy book was an engrossing read, I enjoyed it very much.
Having read Philip Carlo's biography of Richard Kuklinski 'The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer', I can say that Ariel Vromen's big screen adaptation 'The Iceman' is a big disappointment.
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