Don't believe the pack mentality concerning _The Snowman_. This Cult of Rotten Tomatoes and piling on after one bad review is a tad ridiculous, especially concerning solid films like this one. For example, I liked the filming style here and found the cinematography often gorgeous. On the other hand, the story was like a child who tries too hard to be clever, and watching Michael Fassbender act is like making love to someone who's always looking in the mirror when he fucks because he's more interested in his own image than your pleasure. On top of that, what was up with Val Kilmer's voice that they had to dub all of his scenes? Whatever the reason, the Christian Bale Batman voice they chose was extremely distracting... Bottom line: don't believe everything you read. Like with every other movie, see it and judge it for yourself. Don't let other people tell you what you think!

I'd be an alcoholic too if my name was Harry Hole. This makes me want to rewatch Zodiac.

The killer was pretty obvious, and the ending was shocking...ly bad and anti-climatic. Beautiful scenery. Would've been better with Norwegian actors.

Save yourself the money on this movie. Scenes from the trailer are nowhere to be found in the movie, but I can live with that if the movie is still good, but boy it wasn't. [spoiler]This could have been a good mystery IF they made Arve Stop actually do some shady stuff, the entire movie Katrine wanted to bust Arve for the murders, but based on what? Sleeping with woman...? Making money by betraying friends...? This movie had waaaaay too many loose ends. If you watch the movie you know what I mean. The entire sequence between Rafto and Svenson for example. Was this just a filler? What did it add to the movie, except for the murder scene of Rafto? The movie makes a very predictable end by putting the nice guy as a bad guy. Motive of the winter murder spree is not explained that good in the movie. The way he died was too stupid for words. For people who want to know, he fell through the ice, when he was closing in on a shot down detective Harry Hole. For a serial killer that never doubted killing someone this death could easily be prefented by shooting his gun from a distance.[/spoiler] So keeping this all in mind. I rate the movie a 3, because of the acting. it was ok, but ok acting doesn't make an ok movie.