'The Snowman'. To break the movie down to its essence, a lot, really a lot of potential was wasted here.
I do not even know where best to start.
The motive of the murderer and the figure of the snowman is not comprehensible. There is an attempt to introduce the motive and the viewer also thinks, ok, here comes the interesting background. But wrongly thought, the perpetrator and his thoughts are completely interchangeable.
This is supposed to be a high-quality, gritty thriller. Why the heck is CGI blood used consistently here? It looks incredibly inauthentic and gives the viewer the feeling of being in a B-movie. The few scenes I'm talking about would have looked so much better with real effects.
The movie starts with a good suspense at the beginning and the atmosphere is also oppressive. Unfortunately, this swings relatively quickly in the course of the movie. In the middle part, some parallel storylines are opened, where 1. it's not clear to me what that's supposed to do and what relation it has to the actual plot and 2. these storylines aren't even told to the end.
Much of the middle section could have been left out completely and the movie would have been neither worse nor better understood.
I can't shake the feeling that the producers were already thinking about a sequel. To be able to build up a film series, everything possible was simply thrown into one pot to have a sufficiently good basis for sequels. This has to go in, this has to go in, oh yeah, and this has to go in too. But please don't go into too much detail, otherwise the movie will take too long.
That's a real shame, because as I said, the potential would have been there. It is also unbelievable when you look at the really good cast.
I do not even know where best to start.
The motive of the murderer and the figure of the snowman is not comprehensible. There is an attempt to introduce the motive and the viewer also thinks, ok, here comes the interesting background. But wrongly thought, the perpetrator and his thoughts are completely interchangeable.
This is supposed to be a high-quality, gritty thriller. Why the heck is CGI blood used consistently here? It looks incredibly inauthentic and gives the viewer the feeling of being in a B-movie. The few scenes I'm talking about would have looked so much better with real effects.
The movie starts with a good suspense at the beginning and the atmosphere is also oppressive. Unfortunately, this swings relatively quickly in the course of the movie. In the middle part, some parallel storylines are opened, where 1. it's not clear to me what that's supposed to do and what relation it has to the actual plot and 2. these storylines aren't even told to the end.
Much of the middle section could have been left out completely and the movie would have been neither worse nor better understood.
I can't shake the feeling that the producers were already thinking about a sequel. To be able to build up a film series, everything possible was simply thrown into one pot to have a sufficiently good basis for sequels. This has to go in, this has to go in, oh yeah, and this has to go in too. But please don't go into too much detail, otherwise the movie will take too long.
That's a real shame, because as I said, the potential would have been there. It is also unbelievable when you look at the really good cast.