Detective Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) is one of Norway’s most famous detectives. Nowadays he’s more well known as being a drunk. You are more likely to find him passed out on a street than seeing him behind his desk working a case. That is until he gets a missing person’s case where it turns out a serial killer is on the loose. The killer’s MO is to decapitate his victims and put their heads on top of snowmen. He better solve the case soon or the next victims can be the ones he loves.
This is one of those movies whose trailer makes it look like you will see an edge of your seat thriller that will keep you guessing to the very end. It looked like it could be a good cat and mouse plot, but the preview is terribly misleading. Instead we wind up with a two-hour mess with a mystery we can’t get invested in and characters we don’t care about. One cardinal sin you can commit when making a “Whodunnit” type of story is having the audience uninterested in the answer.