20 Times Directors You Trust Totally Let You Down

The Director:

A talented Swedish filmmaker, Tomas Alfredson's films are very bleak-looking but there's a lot of beauty in the bleakness. He's known for Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

The Film:

The Snowman, a butchering of an outstanding crime novel, was a film everyone hated. This was partly due to how much potential it wasted, since it had a fantastic cast, an acclaimed directer and was based on a book by one of the best crime writers in the world, and partly due to how lackluster it is.

A poorly constructed and bland thriller, The Snowman bears the hallmarks of a film whose production was completely messed up. It's wildly incoherent and extremely messy, with actors coming and disappearing at random and plot-lines being abandoned after 10 minutes. It all leads to one of the worst climaxes of any film in recent memory. Even Michael Fassbender is bad in this movie, and that never normally happens.

Tomas Alfredson has apologized for the film and said that the script was incomplete and the filming schedule was too short. It would appear that the film's failure isn't Alfredson's fault, but it's still sad he was roped into something so disastrous.

Has He Bounced Back?

Well, time will tell, but let's hope so.