Friday, March 30, 2018

The falling snow sets the killer off

An embarrassing rendition of Jo Nesbø's novel Snømannen (2007). I didn't even mind that people spoke English in Norway, but can't quite fathom why everything looks cheap and almost unfinished. The script is adrift most of the time, it comes and goes how it pleases and distrupts the core of the story that, in fact, is a good one. Lots of it in it - a sinister serial killer story - is great, but it's a fucking mess.

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