Let Me In Review

Let Me In Review

By Jose

Plot:

A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.

Review:

Let me start off by saying that I have seen the original movie, Let The Right One In, before hearing that we were getting an American remake. Normally I cringe when hearing that. Remakes usually are horrible, gutted versions of a far superior movie. But sometimes remakes get it right. In this case it was decent remake.

Let Me In essentially follows the original scene for scene, and that is not a bad thing. Unless you look at it the way I do. Then you would be saying to yourself “since this is a word for word, scene for scene remake why not just release the original here dubbed in English?”. Exactly. Why waste the money and time. But I am not an executive or producer so I don’t know what goes through their minds.

The movie is good for what it is. The interactions between the two main characters it genuine and scary at the same time. Both Chloe Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee do really well portraying the young physically yet mature lonely girl vampire and the bullied loner boy. Some scenes were cut from the original that I noticed. It seems due to pacing and overall feel. Adding those scenes would have taken away from the flow of the American version. Another thing is that there are some vampire attack scenes that were pure CGI and looked a bit cartoony. Thankfully they were brief and hidden in the dark shadows. Yet you could still tell it looked rather fake.

Now upon hearing of the remake I worried that the ending would be changed or removed due to the subject matter and gruesome deaths. I was so, so happy and surprised that they left it as is and maybe made it a bit darker. The ending is a very strong piece and the thought of the remake changing it drove me nuts. It is the perfect “revenge” on the bullies regardless of the violence and gore involved, they all deserved it for doing the things they did to Owen.

Final Thoughts:
My worries weren’t needed due to the rather prefect America version of the original. Some things were changed that weren’t missed and thankfully the ending stood the same.


Ratings: 3 out of 5