Good in parts, but, overall, too predictable

Rating: 6/10 (21 March 2020)

This remake of 'Wickerman' - the real 1973 one, not the silly 2006 one -is quite fun.
I'm pleased, though, not to have gone to a cinema to see it. I kept hoping there'd be some interesting deviation from the obvious plot being laid out before us, so I watched it all the way through, but, sadly, it was all entirely predictable.
It probably works better for those who feel some sympathy for the oafish North Americans, apparently stumbling into and being insensitive to, the Swedish ritual.
The pissing on the sacred tree should have been excised, it was even sillier than the rest, added nothing, and was very poorly executed.
It'd be nice, if somebody is impelled re-make Wickerman yet again some day, if they do it as pukka Swedish noir - maybe under Dogma rules. I would enjoy that.
The early mushroom scene was extremely well done - the highlight of the film. If they'd kept that level of innovation going, it would have been a brilliant film.