The Snowman Film Review

Finished watching The Snowman, directed by Tomas Alfredson and starring Leonard Heinemann, Sofia Helin, Michael Fassbender, Genevieve O'Reilly and Rebecca Ferguson. The film opens with a young boy (Leonard Heinemann) and his mother (Sofia Helin) finding themselves driving on to a frozen lake where the car and the mother sink into the lake while going to meet with the boys father. Years later Detective Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) is waking up with a hangover in the middle of a park as he heads to work. Later that night teacher Birte Becker (Genevieve O'Reilly) is followed home where she is kidnapped from her home which thrusts Harry and his new work colleague Katrine Bratt (Rebecca Ferguson) into a strange investigation of a killer who's crimes date back years prior. Overall this was a descent film as it dives into the the life and career of Harry Hole by showing how is emotions and family effect and are effected by the film's antagonist. The murder victims are giving a nice about of character intrigue and insight that makes there deaths more impactful to the film and the characters within the film. However what lets the film down is the fact that the film's antagonist gets the least amount of development as their motives are barely explored and once the killer is dealt with the film instantly ending very anticlimactically once the killer has been dealt with. 6/10.