Remake of a Cult Film, Moved to Sweden

Rating: 3/10 (23 October 2019)

I'm going to totally spoil this, so stop reading now.
This is second remake of "The Wicker Man". Note that I also have mixed feelings about the original "cult classic", as well as about the Nicholas Cage remake, though the latter at least had the virtue of being funny.
Here, the setting is Sweden. The evil pagan cultists are even more obviously depraved. The body-count is higher. And the film-maker is even more obviously on the side of the evil pagan cultists. The Christian (or anti-Christian?) themes of the first film is largely absent, and the only nod to them is that the poor doomed slob who will be the central final sacrifice is here named "Christian".
I watched the longer, slower directors cut, but despite that, the film kept my interest throughout the buildup (where most of the extra scenes were). But eventually, at not too far past the mid-point, my interest began to flag. This is the point where the poor doomed idiots, who were visiting this hippy-trippy commune of ancient Swedish pagans, ought to have started to realise they were in serious trouble, and attempt to formulate a plan of escape and survival. Their failure to wise up and attempt to save themselves, deprived the second half of the film of tension, and effectively transformed the film it a celebration of evil.
Another innovation is that the poor doomed slob who the pagans end up burning alive is not the central protagonist. Rather, the central protagonist is his girlfriend, evidently intended to be a more-sympathetic character than he is. She is also the only character who seems on the verge of figuring anything out. But instead of trying to save her friends and herself, she decides to join the hippy-trippy pagans, leave her friends to die, and smile as her not-so-good boyfriend gets burned alive. Are we supposed to be happy for her?.
Fascinating, I guess. But is it good.