"Snow Angels" had the making of an excellent film but the director/writer, David Gordon Green, repeated to much and spread the story to thin.

He opens with what is basically a slide show with the credits and then showing scenes of the town--near the end he does the same slide show. Instead of concentrating/focusing on 2 couples he spreads out to 4 couples. The first couple are an adolescents first romance, the second a divorced couple and the aftermath of that divorce, while the third has separated and the fourth is dealing with infidelity. The main couples are the first two while the other two really don't add, but do distract from the others.

There are marching band sequences that if they are symbolic of something I missed it. And I, also, seemed to have missed what the title of the film means as no one makes snow angels.

While all the actors are fine in their roles the lead actress, Kate Beckensale doesn't seem to fit in as one of the town's citizen--too pretty, too polished and too smart for the role that she is given.

There's adultery, murder, suicide, anger, disappointment, tears and everything that should make for good drama. The photography of a small, dark, gray, snowy and cold town is very appropriate. Unfortunately the film doesn't deliver.

More time should have been spent exploring the divorced couples background as to how they got where they are. How did he become such a loser? What was the reason/cause for him turning to religion? Why did she marry him in the first place? Yes she looks like she might have been the prom queen and he the prom queen but was it only looks that brought them together.

As emotional as I can get watching movies and as emotional as the tragedies should have involved they didn't.

All in all a disappointment.