 Later in 2009 , Lundgren directed and starred in the hit @-@ man thriller Icarus ( retitled in the US and the UK as The Killing Machine ) . He plays a businessman named Edward Genn , working for an investment company , who has a shady past as a KGB special agent known as " Icarus " . He tries to escape from his past life , but his identity is discovered and he is hunted down , placing the lives of his wife and daughter and himself in jeopardy . Retitled in the US and the UK as The Killing Machine , it opened theatrically in Los Angeles on 10 September 2010 , for an exclusive one @-@ week engagement at Laemmele 's Sunset 5 Theater in West Hollywood . 
