The Snowman, the review

I know what you are thinking, “this sounds like another animation”, but fortunately it is not. This movie is way too dark to be an animation, unless Tim Burton directed it.

The Snowman stars the excellent Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Val Kilmer and J. K. Simmons. And with this stellar cast you would think this might be movie of the year material, well I guess it might go into the movie flops of the year category.

The thriller just never seems to win over its audience and I do not even know if they have an audience who can relate to. The movie promised to be the new Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but with a white male in the lead role of course.

It seems as if the writers did not know how to adapt the novel on which the film is based and the director probably did not have good material to work with. The cast try their best to give us a great film, but unfortunately everything falls flat.

I have to be honest, the movie is not all bad, there are a few stunning scenes where the actors really got to shine. The book on which the film is based is really intriguing, which means that certain elements of the movie are interesting.

In my opinion the film was not ready for a cinematic release, but at least it is bearable. The action scenes are not bad to watch and just the fact that the serial killer uses Snowmen as his calling card, makes it a little fun to watch.

The movie follows Detective Harry Hole (Fassbender), who is investigating the death of a young woman during the first snowfall of winter. At first it all feels like anything but a routine homicide. His investigation leads him to "The Snowman Killer," an elusive sociopath who continuously taunts Hole with cat-and-mouse games. As the vicious murders continue, Harry teams up with a brilliant recruit to try and lure the madman out of the shadows before he can strike again.

I’ll give this movie 2.9 out of 10.