Day
170 The
Snowman [2017]
Screenplay Hossein Amini, Peter Straughan & Søren
Sveistrup
Based on ‘The Snowman’ by Jo Nesbø
Director Tomas Alfredson
Cinematography Dion Beebe
Music Marco
Beltrami
Leads Michael
Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Val Kilmer, J. K. Simmons,
Chloë Sevigny, Toby Jones, David Dencik
Production Working Title Films, Perfect World Pictures,
Another Park Film
IMDb 5.1/10
As
you can tell from the year of release – I have not reviewed the much-loved
animated short film The Snowman. Far from it. This highly anticipated
thriller from Working Title features Michael Fassbender as an alcoholic
detective who attempts to solve the murders of a serial killer I will dub the
killer snowman, because it sounds like a cartoon supervillain. It’s based on
what I can only assume was a popular book, that I’m sure was popular because it’s
a good book. This is not a good film. It’s like they thought to themselves hey,
here’s a good idea, those Scandi dramas that do so well as television shows,
let’s make a Scandi thriller film based on a best-selling novel, that’s sure to
do well if we get a big name on board, right? Wrong. They should have made a series
and sold it to Netflix or Sky or whoever and I’m telling you it would have done
extremely well because we needed more character development as well as a more developed
relationship between detective Harry Hole (Fassbender) and the killer snowman.
If they’d thrown in a few more Scandi actors I would have enjoyed it more too
as we get to see a load of Americans with Scandinavian names run around Norway.
Norway’s scenery is the only thing that saved this film from being a complete
and utter flop; you can’t go wrong with sweeping aerial shots of beautiful
fjords and snowy mountains. It’s also worth praising whoever was in charge of
putting the trailer and promos together for this film as they did a splendid
job. It looked like it was going to be the next Zodiac or Se7en,
but instead we had something Nicholas Cage would have been embarrassed to star
in. Don’t bother.
Acting 3 / 4
Writing 1 / 4
Cinematography 3 / 4
Music 1.5 / 4
HWF rating 1.5 / 4
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