It looks as if the once-bright prospects for Michael FassbendersThe Snowmanare melting away.
The Snowmanis a largely pedestrian affair, turgid and humorless in tone, writesThe Hollywood Reporters Stephen Dalton.
Guy Lodge, writing forVariety, agrees.
Read on for more scathing reviews forThe Snowman, which opens Friday, Oct. 20 in theaters.
That might have helped, at least a little.
Thats nothing against Norwegians youll note that there arent any in the movie.
J.K. Simmons goes for Anglo-Oslo mash-up, Chloe Sevigny is full-on fake British.
Amy Nicholson (Uproxx)Theres a frozen loogie at the heart ofThe Snowman…
The whole film sounds like that.
Literally, when people fire pistols near ski-lifts and scamper across deceptively safe-looking terrain.
But also subconsciously, when you sense thatThe Snowmanisnt the dim, disappointing movie anyone involved intended to make.
Matt Goldberg (Collider)The cinematic equivalent of hypothermia… You know that if you were going to care about these characters, youd be invested by now.
The appeal of the whodunit?
is that on some basic level, we want answers.
But withThe Snowman, all it gets from us is a Who cares?
ButThe Snowmandoes not do subtext.
Indeed, its by-the-numbers script barely qualifies as text.
Even the dependable Ferguson looks lost in the snowdrifts of the script.
