Let Me In: A Complete Waste Of Time?
Instead of a lengthy comparison between Let The Right One In and Matt Reeves remake , we'll just stick with the basics. Yes, this is an inferior remake of a foreign film. Yes, Reeves takes out the subtlety and ambiguity that made the original such a powerful and beautiful work of art, and instead replaces these elements with bouts of action and decent make-up effects. We would like to say that there is no merit to Let Me In , but that may be too harsh so lets look at the facts. The in-medias-res beginning we thought would take this film into the realm of the book, but instead it is needlessly placed to spruce up the twenty minute test (for non-screenwriters out there this is the captivating twenty pages/minutes that will ultimately capture your viewer and if this fails then the rest will as well). Our new Hakan is now played by the brilliant Richard Jenkins and is miscredited on IMDB as "The Father," this may shed some light on how exactly Reeves ruins...