LET ME IN – matt reeves – 6.4 / 10

As much as I like Let the Right One In, Tomas Alfredson’s 2008 Swedish film on which Let Me In is based, I think there could be some value in remaking it with a bigger budget for mainstream American audiences.  The film is rife with thorny ideas about the perils of childhood and the thrills of first love that beg to be experienced by as many people as possible.  And if it has to be remade in English for that to happen then so be it.  But Matt Reeves’s new version, while managing to hit just about all the same notes as the original (even doing a few of them better), doesn’t hear the music and the whole becomes much less than the sum of its parts.