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Mathias manages to shoot Harry, but the ice beneath Mathias' feet suddenly cracks and breaks apart, dropping him into the water below and dragging him under the current to his death. After having his injuries treated, Harry returns to the police precinct, and volunteers for a new homicide case.

According to Variety , the initial hope with the film to was to create a series in the vein of the Alex Cross film adaptations. For a while, Martin Scorsese was attached to direct, [6] although he dropped out in Principal photography on the film commenced on 18 January in Oslo , Norway. Filming in Bergen including scenes on the mountain of Ulriken , Bryggen and the Skansen firestation.

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Production moved back to Oslo for the remainder of filming, in mid-March. This led to narrative problems when editing commenced:. Universal Pictures released a poster on 18 July , and the first trailer for the film premiered the following day. An international trailer was released on 5 September.

The original poster, featuring a doodle of a snowman and a note to the police, became a popular Internet meme shortly after its release. The Snowman was widely panned by critics, who derided what they saw as the film's scattered and incomprehensible plot line, as well as a lack of direction for its main cast members. The website's critical consensus reads, "A mystery that feels as mashed together and perishable as its title, The Snowman squanders its bestselling source material as well as a top-notch ensemble cast.

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Films directed by Tomas Alfredson. Stemmer fra Balkan Karusellmusikk Okkupert Headhunters The Snowman Apparently, Fassbender started shooting only two days after wrapping Assassin's Creed, and it shows. There are more plot holes here than you can shake a Harry Hole at and the narrative is so painfully slow that any snowmen getting built would've thawed out long before an investigation even got going.

It's such a shame that this really didn't come together as all the ingredients are in place and had some genuine potential. In fact, it's astonishing how poor it is with the quality involved and it looks like any hope of a Harry Hole franchise could already be dead in the water while Michael Fassbender best be careful if he wants to retain his reputation. To be fair, the film's problems don't particularly lie with him but he needs to seriously take stock and be bit more discerning and choose projects more worthy of his abilities.

Maybe it's no one's fault and this is just a classic casualty of production difficulties and time constraints that led to no one being able to do their jobs effectively. What could've been a suspenful thriller ends up about as thrilling as eating yellow snow. Don't stay out in the cold too long with this one or you might catch a serious doze of incurable mediocrity. And never mind the misleading title of "The Snowman". It should've taken its name from its anatomy instead When meshing multiple genres together, it can be quite the challenge to please fans of each, but it's been done very well in the past.

With the right amount of effort put, multiple genre films can be some of the best out there. Sadly, this movie feels hollow, empty, and unfinished. With such a stellar cast and crew working on this movie, there's no reason for a movie like this to be terrible, but let me just start by saying this is one of the worst films of the year. The Snowman fails as a piece of compelling storytelling, as well as doing anything new for its genre.

That's the simplest way to explain this film without spoiling or making it sound too ridiculous, because trust me, the twist and how the twist occurs is quite dumb in terms of storytelling.

This film went through many issues when being filmed, but then why the major release? Quite honestly, this film deserved to be sent straight to home video, because everything from its clunky screenplay to its choppy editing felt off. Your movie makes it into post-production and is now being made into the best possible version it can be hopefully , so why is it that it still turns out to look like a two-hour trailer that breezes past crucial plot points? There are multiple occasions throughout the course of this film that sequences feel missing.

Although certain reveals are easily spottable throughout the first two acts, the movie asks you to patiently wait until the final minutes in order to really invest yourself in the plot twists. That would've been fine if the story kept you on the edge of your seat, but not much of anything is truly that interesting throughout the first two acts. Yes, the premise itself could've lent itself to an interesting film overall, but it was only the performances that kept me from wanting to leave the theatre. I'm a huge fan of Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson.

Although Ferguson hasn't really been all that present in the world of motion pictures for as long as Fassbender at least in the mainstream spotlight , I find her work to be wonderful. Whether it's being a badass heroin in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation or giving a devoted dramatic performance in the lukewarm The Girl on the Train, she has proven herself to have some range.

Fassbender is pretty likable in everything he does, so that should come as no surprise, but I'm honestly only gushing over these two performers because the film itself doesn't have much to lend a compliment to. I found myself incredibly bored with its pacing and lack of an inciting incident to really get me invested. In the end, there is a salvage score to keep the film's tone in line, a lot of the cinematography is well-done, and the performances seem to be devoted to their respective roles. That being said, the screenplay, along with the overall editing and final product, just doesn't match up to any of those aspects.

The film feels like one long movie trailer for a ten-episode television series. The worst part is that you can see where the film could've been improved upon, which makes rewatching it impossible. There isn't a scenario in which I'll ever find myself recommending this movie to anyone. The Snowman is a neat idea that is stretched into a two-hour film that feels too long, while also feeling incomplete.

A disappointing film to say the least. The Snowman is an awfully dumb movie that mistakenly believes it is smart. It's convoluted, impenetrable, serious to the point of hilarity, and a general waste of everyone's times and talents.

When the best part of your movie is the scenic views of Norway, and unless it's a documentary about Norwegian winters, then you have done something very, very wrong. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo this ain't. Harry Hole Michael Fassbender , possibly the most regrettably named protagonist in recent memory, is a brilliant detective on the hunt for a killer in Oslo. Someone is abducting women and chopping them up into snowmen.

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The killer even sends Harry a taunting note with a crude drawing of a snowman. Together with a new partner, Katrine Bratt Rebecca Ferguson , they try and hunt the cold-blooded killer with a penchant for snowmen. The Snowman doesn't so much exist as a functional screen story but more a series of incidental scenes that barely feel connected.

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It feels like one scene has no impact upon the next, which eventually sabotages any sense of momentum and direction. It feels like it's going nowhere because none of these moments feel like they're adding up to anything. There are entire subplots and characters that are, at best, tangential to the story and could have been culled completely with no impact.

Simmons' wealthy sleaze and storyline about securing the World Cup for Oslo comes to nothing. The self-recording police device seems destined to record something significant. It does, but then the killer just erases the footage. This entire storyline could have been achieved with a smart phone, including the part where a severed finger is required to break the device's fingerprint lock. Val Kilmer's flashbacks he sounds weirdly dubbed and looks sickly as a murdered detective don't really come to anything or offer revelations.

In fact the revelations that do arise are not gleaned from clues but are merely told to us with incredulous haste. The Snowman poster boasts "I gave you all the clues" but I challenge anyone to tell me what they are. What's the point of a mystery where nothing matters? It's a film stuffed with nonessential details and lacking a key point to engage.

I'll give you another example of how moronic and wasteful this movie is, and it involves none other than Oscar-nominated actress Chloe Sevigny Boys Don't Cry. Harry Hole and Katrine visit Sevigny's character and mild spoilers but who really cares? Seems like a pretty big waste of an actor of Sevigny's caliber on a do-nothing part.

The police show back up on the scene and Sevigny is still walking around alive, this time introducing herself as the twin sister we never knew about. Ah, now perhaps the inclusion of Sevigny will be warranted and maybe the killer having confused his victims will be a significant clue that leads the detectives onto the right path.

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Think again, hopeful audience members. Sevigny is never seen from again, never heard from again, and never even referenced again.

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Why introduce the concept of an identical twin and do nothing with it? Sevigny had not one but two do-nothing parts in this mess. Even the ending again spoilers, but we've come this far, so why the hell not? Harry Hole tracks down the killer outside onto an icy lake and screams for this person to confront him.

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The killer then immediately shoots Harry in the chest, immobilizing him. The killer then slowly stalks Harry and then simply walks into an open hole in the ice and drowns. Was that there the entire time? Did Harry somehow create it? Did he find it and strategically position himself near it? Did the killer not see this hole in the ice at all considering they were walking up on Harry from a distance? It's such a hilariously anticlimactic ending that it feels like the killer, and so too the movie, is meekly giving up and accepting defeat.

The main character is just as uninteresting as the gruesome killer. Harry Hole is reportedly a brilliant detective and one whose past cases are so revered that they are taught in places of higher learning. Yet, at no point in the movie do you gain the impression of his oft-stated brilliance. He seems pretty bad at his job, plus he constantly loses track of his gun. It's another example of the movie telling us things without the requisite proof. Harry Hole referred to as "Mr.

Hole" and "the Great Harry Hole" too is your typical super driven alcoholic detective who pushes his family away because he's too close to his work. There is the germ of a starting idea of a character that is too selfish to make room for his family, but this isn't going to be that story. At one point, Harry Hole's ex-girlfriend Charlotte Gainsbourg seems to be having a self-destructive affair with Harry Hole, but this dynamic isn't explored and only surfaces once.

It's a scene so short that it's over before Harry Hole can literally get his pants off. We don't see the brilliant side of the character and we're also denied the evidence for his destructive side. Fassbender Assassin's Creed is on teeth-gritting, laconic autopilot here and the English-speaking cast tries their own game of playing Norwegian accents while sounding mostly British or Brit-adjacent. Even the title is one more example of how woefully inept this movie becomes. It's not some key formative memory from the killer's childhood or some integral icon attached to a traumatic experience.

It's not even a bizarre sexual fetish. The snowman doesn't even mean anything to the guy making the snowman in the movie! You'd be forgiven for thinking that the presence of snowmen are entirely coincidental throughout Oslo and the whole of the film. It's so stupidly misapplied as well, with the movie working extra hard to make the very sight of a snowman as a moment to inspire uncontrollable fright. It goes to hilarious lengths, like a camera panning around an ordinary snowman that then reveals There's a moment when Harry looks down to his car parked on a street and sees Just imagine the killer standing on the hood of the car and digging snow out on top to craft his masterpiece of snow-art-terror.

I just start laughing. Then there's the application of the murders.