it's a terrific cast, people like charlotte gainsbourg, jk simmons, chloe sevigny, many of whom are prettyle to the heart idea of a killer building snowmen it's a terrifying idea. it never terrified or gripped me and i was never convinced of the psychological back story. i neverfound myself gripped and involved in the way you want to. as i said, the disappointment is made worse by the fact that you look at the pedigree of the people making this film. particularly alfredson, who i think is a really terrific director. itjust looks to me like this is a film that got away. it looks like a film, that during the film—making process, they just lost sight of where it was going. it is confused, or confusing? it's confused and confusing, and it also looks like it has been re—edited a lot. it looks like a film in which, when they've got into the editing room, they have had to work very hard to make the constituent parts come together. occasionally it just happens, a film maker literally just misses something. in the case of this, as i said, the disappointment was made worse by the fact that you go in