Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Overrated and overhyped

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

A beautiful film with a truly impressive performance by Sigourney Weaver as an autistic woman that befriends traumatized Alan Rickman.Helmed by Walesian director Marc Evans, "Snow Cake" is set and shot in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was written by Angela Pell, her first and (still) only movie. The atmospheric small-town winter setting adds a lot of bubble-in-time feeling and makes a good backdrop for the story.

While perhaps a slow-burner to start with, Snow Cake is a superb film. The film looks wonderful, with beautiful cinematography and an enchanting atmosphere. I also loved how appropriately low-key the score was too, and Mark Evans does credit for his understated direction. The dialogue is truly excellent, with the comic elements laugh-out-loud and the tragic elements genuinely touching, and the story while leisurely sometimes is compelling and maintains a strong emotional wallop and credibility and heart to its characters, Alex being the best developed of the whole piece. The acting is excellent, both Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman are fantastic and show an able chemistry, and Carrie-Ann Moss is also very good. All in all, a superb film. 9/10 Bethany Cox

How often do you encounter a film that you want to watch again as soon as you have just finished watching it? How often does a film about the range of human interaction, including the 'disability' of unconventional communication, not become a hindrance to enjoyment? How often do we get the opportunity to see an eclectic gathering of some of the most iconic actors ('Alien', 'Harry Potter', 'The Matrix) of our time in an art-house, 'minority' movie about philosophical issues, instead of big-budget Hollywood-studio stereotypical scenarios? What happens if you make an intelligent, optimistic, puzzle film, encompassing every emotion, plus with a heart, but omit bias, moralising and lecturing? Is such a film possible?Wow! If you have never even thought to ask these questions you will be amazed by this film, and if you have asked these questions, then this film is the reward that other people thought them too and knew how to manifest them perfectly!Total respect to all responsible for this unique and delicious masterpiece. :)

Let's be clear. This movie is terrible. It's a bad student film with a bigger budget. I would rather watch Jesus Christ the Musical sixty times than sit through this again.I should preface this review by saying that I adore Alan Rickman. Among actors, he is god. He is the sexiest guy that ever walked the boards. But Alan, not even you can save this dreck.The thing is, it's not just a film. It's a Film. With a Message. And the message is? Everyman (that's Alan) can learn to accept autistics as long as he has the root next door. Or something.I understand that the screenwriter based a lot of Sigourney's character on her own autistic son. Let this be a lesson for screenwriters everywhere: don't do family. It will suck.Specific objections. The daughter, who I'm sure was written to be zany and adorable, was in reality just irritating. The man looking for redemption and finding himself is old. The man sleeping with somebody and (ok, this might be construed a spoiler, but by the time it happens you'll be so over the movie that you'll be glad I rescued you) thinking that she is a prostitute and therefore handing her cash has also been done to death. The woman in question not being mightily offended and throwing him out has not. There is a reason for this.Finally, there is a terrible, terrible redemption scene, which made me vomit a little. How can I describe it without giving anything away ... say you had a pet dog, and a complete stranger was out walking your dog, and at some point in the journey he walked your dog under a bus.The bus driver turns up at your house, and THE GUY WHO WAS WALKING THE DOG FORGIVES HIM! 1/10, and that one point is only because I like opening scenes in aeroplanes.