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Yar, you be here: Smilla's Sense of Snow > Customer Reviews Smilla's Sense of Snow Customer Reviews (1 - 3 of 16 Reviews)A brief comment
I enjoyed this odd movie despite its faults. The scientific premise of a meteor with bizarre properties that can generate great energy and power is more than a little bit hokey, but it makes up for that in other ways. Smilla's character is unusual and the way her deep knowledge of ice and snow enables her to sleuth out the truth about the boy's death is a unique touch. The beautiful Julia Ormand plays the conflicted and anti-social Smilla across from Gabriel Byrne, the ambiguous but sympathetic neighbor who seems to like Smilla despite her crusty demeanor and who helps her with her investigations. The movie gets off to a good start as the viewer follows Smilla in her investigation of the boy's mysterious death, but the movie turns distinctly hokey about half-way through when it becomes sort of a B movie, sci-fi thriller when the secret plot is discovered about the strangely powerful meteorite. But the movie succeeds mainly on the strength of Smilla's fascinating character and how her Greenlander snow knowledge and skills enable her to solve the murder mystery. And Gabriel Byrne brings a quiet intensity to his role as the supportive neighbor. Interesting Drama
Smilla's Sense of Snow is an interesting thriller. There are many conflicts between the main character and her family, her heritage and authority. This is a little slow to get going but is exciting towards the end of the film. Groan! This is So Bad . . .
This movie is so bad! Julia Ormond is so beautiful it's like sweet agony to watch her slink around in fabulous clothes, at least in the first few scenes. But then the plot begins to fall apart, and really, there is nothing going on. The story starts out fairly logical, a little boy fell off a roof -- was he pushed? But soon stunning Smilla is babbling about meteorites and worms from outer space and corporate bad guys who all look like Richard Harris, old and ugly and with one foot in the grave. You will laugh and laugh if you wait through the end to see what they really want you to believe happened to the little boy. (SPOILER AHEAD) Uh, gee, Richard Harris, 80 years old and drunk, chasing a six year old boy up six flights of stairs? How about no, Richard lurches out of his limo falls face down in the gutter and dies on the spot? What makes it even more laughable is the stupid reasons given for the great Meteor Hunt, which is a laughable premise to begin with. In actual, scientific fact, there is no reason a meteorite might not contain precious metals like platinum or gold. This has been known to occur. But no, THIS meteorite is filled with killer worms that eat people's brains! And so of course the Sinister Corporation must move heaven and earth to get the worms, and use them to . . . to . . . uh, they don't quite explain! The plot makes no sense, but Smilla looks lovely in her cute little couture outfits. You'd never know she was a rebel, the way she's such a fashion junkie. And what's the deal with the way she's always tormenting her father's luscious young trophy wife? I wanted Smilla and Benja to stop arguing and have some steamy lesbian sex, with 90 year old Richard Harris watching through the window and his breath fogging up the glass! When the movie is set in Denmark, early on, it's okay. But the plot gets less and less believable as Smilla, the stunning beauty, stows away on a tramp steamer bound for Greenland. The crew doesn't notice they have a lovely stowaway, and when they do see her lurking about they sort of shrug it off. Gee, sailors must have changed a lot!
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