Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.
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- 1 nomination total
Leonard Samuelsson Heinemann
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- (as Leonard Heinemann)
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Bit slow at times but It can't be all action all the time. It entertained me, exactly what it was supposed to do.
Great actors, great book. Great scenery. But what's happening here? People are introduced, things are happening, but I don't get it. What is happening? What are they working on? Is there a case here, a story? I wanted this movie to be great, but it is too much fluff and little (if any) story for a movie the way it's presented. Who directed this.................................
Really wanted to like this because the book is so good. Had to watch the first 20 minutes 3 times. Got to the minute 49 the third time then turned it off in disgust. Incomprehensible garbage. Author should sue.
I read that this movie got some pretty terrible reviews but i kind of enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for cop/detective movies especially ones where the main character is jaded and burnt out and the movie has a great cast - Micheal Fassbender, J.K Simmons and the beautiful Rebecca Ferguson. The story kept me interested all the way through and the Norwegian setting is pretty stunning to look at.
It felt like a TV movie in places though probably because nothing is overly flashy and the movie wasn't particularly action packed but i did enjoy the police procedural elements. It's well acted and i was invested to know what would happen next.
Also you're kept in the dark until the last 15 minutes as to who the killer is and then my reaction was "Oh, it's that guy....really?".
Not as awful as the reviews would make you believe but not a classic. If you enjoy detective thrillers i'd say check it out, you'll have a decent time.
I can't deny that I had high hopes for this film and it disappointed me on many levels, but I do think some of the previous reviews are exaggerating just how bad 'The Snowman' is. The film is messy, even puzzling at times, and very frustrating to watch. It lacks focus and struggles to find its feet early on. It also contains some baffling individual scenes that contribute nothing to the plot or film as a whole.
It improves as it goes along though and, contrary to what a lot of others have said, I thought the ending was relatively well done. The film is more of a mystery than a horror and it did keep me interested and guessing until the end... though I'm sure the stunning Scandinavian scenery did the film a lot of favours in terms of watchability.
'The Snowman' is disappointing, but it does have some pluses and is not as bad as some are making it out to be.
It improves as it goes along though and, contrary to what a lot of others have said, I thought the ending was relatively well done. The film is more of a mystery than a horror and it did keep me interested and guessing until the end... though I'm sure the stunning Scandinavian scenery did the film a lot of favours in terms of watchability.
'The Snowman' is disappointing, but it does have some pluses and is not as bad as some are making it out to be.
Did you know
- TriviaTomas Alfredson has said that production was too rushed. He came on board late, and reckons that up to 15% of the screenplay was never filmed. Location filming in Norway was shortened so production could move to London, which compromised the story. He was also not given enough budget to shoot certain scenes in the script. As a result, several subplots in the film are unfinished and never resolved, characters come and go without explanation and even straight up disappear from the film (most notable being J.K. Simmons' character), and several continuity errors and plot holes are present in the story.
- GoofsNear the end, when Hole has figured out who the killer is, he calls his police detail to have them track a cell phone signal. They come back with a location, plus the color and model of the car the phone is traveling in.
- Quotes
Harry Hole: I need a case to work on.
Gunnar Hagen: I apologize for Oslo's low murder rate.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Crime Connections: Episode #1.4 (2012)
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Written by Tomas Alfredson
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- Also known as
- El muñeco de nieve
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- Budget
- $35,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,700,035
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,372,565
- Oct 22, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $43,084,060
- Runtime
- 1h 59m(119 min)
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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