Film Review - The Snowman (2017)

The Snowman is based off of the novel by Jo Nesbo and stars Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole a detective who finds himself investigating a series of missing persons case where the clue is a snowman planted at the scene but he finds himself with some help in the form of Rebecca Ferguson and managing his ex-partner played by Charlotte Gainsbourg.

This movie is absolutely pathetic and I really felt when it was over that my time was wasted the whole 2 hours I mean you have:

- Tomas Alfredson the director of Tinker Tailor Sailor Spy and Let the Right One In
- Houssen Amini the screenwriter of Drive
- Martin Scorsese as Executive Producer
- Thelma Schoonmaker one of the top editors in the world editing this movie

And finally a great cast of Fassbender, Ferguson, Gainsbourg, JK Simmons, Val Kilmer and Toby Jones and yet not one of these people the production team in particular and especially Universal Pictures see with their own eyes that this was a disastrous mess that has no real story to it whatsoever.

And not only that but its editing is so very poor and a lot of times it falls back on the “Voice over exterior scenes” that often becomes a quick fix in the editing room and the overall editing here doesn’t give you a sense of a story or a mystery unfolding or even being told in a competent way and as a result it feels like very little is happening on screen.

The film does have some nice winter landscape shots but big fucking deal when the filmmaking here is so piss bloody poor it takes a great cast and flushes them through a toilet and this is a great cast but no one really gets a chance to shine and poor Val Kilmer sounds like his voice has been dubbed now he himself is said to not be in good health but sometimes his vocals don’t match the lip movements on Kilmer’s voice so he had to have been dubbed in the editing process.

Now there was indeed a potentially interesting murder story here to be told but when as Mr Alfredson is said to have stated that 10 to 15 percent of the script was not even filmed then that creates clear problems in terms of telling a coherent story that has a beginning, middle and end still it is just staggering how poorly this film comes together.

The Snowman is a pathetic mess and the very worst film I’ve seen this year I cannot believe so many high quality people some of the best of both past and present eras of filmmaking put out such a horrible incompetent mess of a movie I still feel angry about this, 0 out of 5.