Snowman's Land (2012)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 8
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 5
No consensus yet.
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User Ratings: 218
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In this wry German dark comedy, Walter (Jürgen Rißmann) is a professional hitman who has just botched a job. Forced to leave the city, he reluctantly takes up an offer from eccentric crime boss Berger (Reiner Schöne) to protect his house (and young, pretty, free-spirited wife Sybille) in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains. At Walter's side is Mickey (Thomas Wodianka), his chatty, thrill-seeking old friend. After a freak accident, what seemed to be a nice, easy holiday job for the
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Cast
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Jürgen Ri??mann
Walter -
Thomas Wodianka
Micky -
Reiner Schöne
Berger -
Waléra Kanischtscheff
Kazik -
Eva-Katrin Hermann
Sibylle -
Luc Feit
François -
Detlef Bothe
Harry -
Andreas Windhuis
Waffenhandler -
Anton Weber
Kalle -
Ferdinand Fischer
1. Opfer Toilette -
Elmar Kuhling
2. Opfer Toilette -
Karina Iversen
Frau Wettkneipe -
Kevin Matweew
Kellner -
Fang Dong
First Girl in Restauran... -
Hanna Dong
Second Girl in Restaura... -
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All Critics (12) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (8)
Any charm evaporates amid the rampant amorality.
Top CriticThomson is more successful at visual composition than narrative momentum; would-be sequences of black comedy are too stretched out to benefit from timing.
Just when it's lulled you into complacency, it springs back to life - and death.
Despite on-point performances, the story is too pitted with holes and loose ends to permit the film a bump from meh to marvelous.
Unfortunately, the images are more inviting than the narrative.
The tone here is unhurried and the bursts of violence and narrative played at an aesthetic remove, but the cycles of languor and activity ultimately feel too calculated-the strained overlay of sensationalism onto a desiccated canvas.
A tonal hodgepodge ever at odds with itself, Tomasz Thomson's unctuous, tongue-in-cheek debut is far too self-satisfied with its jokes for any to really be funny.
Fun, often droll crime thriller about a grungy slob of a hit man given an assignment in the remote, snowy Carpathian Mountains provides a nifty ride for both more demanding audiences and the usual suspects looking for raunchiness.
A gloomy comedy that's funnier in theory than in practice.
Tonally, Snowman's Land feels like a German throwback to a '90s indie, but without the energy-the pacing is languid to the point of aimlessness ...
A zany Teutonic character-driven film noir that's filled with deadpan comedy.
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