My review was written in May 1986 after a screening at UA Twin theater in Manhattan.

Take an uninteresting story, executed on the cheap in perfunctory fashion and you have the non-thriller "Agent on Ice", shot in New York and New Jersey with such alternate titles as "And Then You Die" and "Silent Partners". With a no-name cast, pic will have trouble getting attention in international markets.

Tom Ormenny (who looks like an uncle to actor John Ericson) toplines as John Pope, an ex-CIA agent now on the skids as a slovenly insurance adjustor. A Mafiosos he supposedly killed, Frank Matera (Louis Pastore), is back in New York after hiding out in Sicily, and orders Pope and other CIA agents to be killed.

Pope's ex-bosses at the CIA are corruptly in cahoots with the Mafia, so everyone wants him dead. It takes six boring reels and a bulletproof vest for Pope to wipe out everybody and have the obligatory final scene letting the government know what it can do with its jobs and perks.

Acting is lousy in a film which cries out for an international cast of character actors. Shot in winter (with New Jersey unconvincingly filling in for a prologue supposedly set in Hungary), the film has consistently ugly locations and dreary colors. With producer Louis Pastore doubling as the Mafia villain, movie is closer to a vanity production than the tough guy, B-picture it strives to be.