This is a completely unnecessary remake of Let the Right One In. Competent in every way, but wholly extraneous.Small, bullied Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) meets shy, odd Abby (Chloe Moretz) and starts to develop a friendship. This is hampered somewhat by Abby's need to feed on the blood of the living.
Let the Right One In was released in 2008 and was an instant success. That's also about the same time Scandinavian authors like Jo Nesbo, Steig Larsson, and Henning Mankell started flying off the shelves. That does not justify a remake. I believe I said as much when they optioned The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, even though there was already a perfectly good contemporary Swedish version.
I don't care if you hate subtitles. You owe it to yourself to watch the best representation of a story and that is Let the Right One In. Settle for nothing less than the original.
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