The Snowman creates a not-so-thrilling thriller
The Snowman, released October 20, 2017, seemed to be another one of those cheesy horror movies. It was set in Oslo, Norway, where it always snows.
So far, it has earned $22.7 million, which doesn’t even compare to movies like It and Dunkirk.
Directed by Tomas Alfredson, it starts off with a young boy, played by Michael Yates, being questioned by his Uncle about war dates and quickly escalates to his mother drowning, and then the boy builds a snowman, of all things.
The snowman is supposed to symbolize murder, but it isn’t just any snowman. Each one of them has a mouth made of coffee beans, which is a big symbol in the beginning of the movie.
As the story goes on, it started to look like more of a mystery movie than horror, but the only mystery was trying to figure out who the Snowman Murderer was. In the last five minutes of the movie, everything is tied together into a messy knot and called done.
Rotten Tomatoes rates the movie a rotten 8%. Reviewers call it a “waste of a film” and “uninterrupted snow-caked boredom”. New York Times critics call it a “thrill-free thriller”.
The movie, based on the book by Jo Nesbo, tries to give a bone-chilling and cat-and-mouse murder mystery, but only achieves confusion for whoever watches it.
Sure, it’s worth watching if you want to see beheaded women and men with only half their face. Although it was more confusing than horrifying, Val Kilmer, who plays Gert, gives a reminder of Top Gun, which made the movie a little better.
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