Michael Fassbender is in some
serious trouble when it comes to role choosing in this decade. A whole plethora
of poor choices („The Counselor”,
„Prometheus”,
„Alien: Covenant”,
„Assassin’s creed”,
„The light between the oceans”)
led once very perspective young actor into some serious doubts whether will he
ever find the right way to stardom and critical recognition he rightfully
deserves.
The last one
of his flops is an unfinished, messy and totally flat lined script about
a detective trying to catch a serial killer that leaves his future victims a
snowman before he mutilates them. Set in picturesque Norway, it shows off some
spectacular empty landscapes, reflecting the vast emptiness of the storyline,
at least a decent plot or some sufficient acting.
Fassbender is looking dazed and confused through
the entire course of the movie, like he himself can not believe what he just
filmed, wondering why he took the job in the first place.
„The Snowman” isn’t movie at all, it’s just an
unfinished first take of a really poor attempt to squeeze the life of the
Scandinavian neo-noir thriller.
