“Death in Winter” Movie Review: Emma Thompson’s Talent Freezes in Mediocrity Horror

lAlmost all of Ike’s other famous actors are in today’s second-rate movie world, Emma Thompson is forced to face the challenge of inventing her own project to keep her film career. Now, it includes starring in a hackney, uninspired horror movie called Dead in winter. She also made it herself. Times are terrible everywhere.
Dead in winter ★★ (2/4 stars) |
In this process of wasting the talent and wisdom of the great actor, she plays an aging, gun companion, unfavorably revisiting an ancient fishing hole where her late husband likes to spread ashes. On a snow trail in the frozen waste in northern Minnesota, her truck collapses in the storm, and as she drifts from the ice into an abandoned shed in the wilderness, seeking warmth and shelter in the wilderness, she discovers a young kidnapper who discovers a young kidnapping victim, explained in particular by a group of people who accompany the couple, especially Mrs. Y (Yard ack for). The film is about the old woman’s futile effort to save the girl from a series of endless attacks and tortures, at any time when death is approaching death. It’s a ridiculous story, but it’s intriguing you thanks to Emma Thompson’s expertise.
Her shooting, cutting, bleeding and half frozen to death, she performed very well, a memory of her happy marriage and her ability to keep a fire in a barren cottage that caused her gunshot wounds and sewed the pieces of her arms together (like a quilt, “like a quilt, again exuding painful pain.” Chat never stops, just watching it. The film is far from the star’s graceful Jane Austen period work, but Ms. Thompson is always worth watching, too, even if she wasted time and our time.
Unfortunately, the hasty scripts of Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb ask more questions than answers Fargo. Knowing the territory, why does Ms. Sampson’s character choose the worst season in the Midwest to spread ashes from shabby trucks and not safe to drive even in the best weather? What did the kidnapping victim do to be captured? Where are the vicious kidnappers going and why? Director Brian Kirk did nothing to explain, exhaustive or justify. Worse, the two lunatic villains were identified as fentanyl addicts, but that doesn’t explain why half of the women have carried up to five hypodermic needles in most of her films, wearing her tongue at once.
Anyone’s guess first attracted a great actress like Emma Thompson. According to the credit of the end point, Dead in winter Located in Minnesota, but filmed in Finland, Germany and Belgium, it was only necessary to have a snow-covered backyard in New Jersey.