When I had the opportunity to sit down and watch "Snow Angel", I did so without virtually knowing anything about the movie, aside from what I read on the synopsis. With "Snow Angel" being a movie that I hadn't already seen, nor actually ever heard about, of course I would opt to watch it, when I was given the chance here in 2025. So I didn't have any expectations to the movie, and was open for impressions.
Writers Gabriel Allard, Catherine Bérubé, Damien Bérubé, Marc Lapointe, Louis-Philippe Tremblay and Paul Van Dyck put together a script that utterly failed to entertain me. I virtually had no idea what the movie was about or what was going on. It felt like the writers had independently of one another written segments and left it up to director Gabriel Allard to attempt to piece their segments together to make a coherent storyline. And the end result was a boring mess of a scrambled story. It just goes to prove that too many chefs spoil a dish.
I tossed the towel in the ring 66 minutes into the 91 minute runtime. By then I was just bored to tears and had no idea what was going on or what the writers were trying to tell with the farce that was supposed to be the storyline.
I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, which was actually a good thing. I do enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen when I sit down to watch a movie. The acting performances were fair, no doubt about that, despite the fact that the script had been served to them through a blender first.
If you enjoy mystery thrillers then "Snow Angel" is not a movie that I would recommend you to waste 91 minutes on watching. And it most definitely is not a movie that I will return to attempt finish watching. It was a waste of time, pure and simple.
My rating of director Gabriel Allard's 2023 movie "Snow Angel" lands on a two out of ten stars.
