Review of Snow Angels (2007) by Dean M — 09 Jan 2009

I was underwhelmed by Green's Pineapple Express and while I quite liked his All the Real Girls when I saw it, I barely recall anything about it anymore.

This is a movie that didnâ??t necessarily do anything wrong, but felt distant and mopey, to the point where I was simply apathetic about everything that was happening. It merely felt like I watched some decent somber performances for 2 hours - sad music plays in the background while characters bare their souls to each other in a way Iâ??ve never known anyone to do.

There are little touches Green has, from the camera moving past the characters as they are walking, letting them fall out of screen, and the little moments like in the library where they look up â??blowjobâ??, that tell me more about the characters than their long winded poetic declarations. In the end the sad glum tone is present but for me, is unearned.

So while I canâ??t cite much that is bad, thereâ??s not much for me to single out as being very good either.

So Iâ??d rank it a 2/5, and so much of that for better or for worse is gut truthiness and apathy and not really any harsh declaration of hackery or awfulness.