Simply not up to the original's standards
Let Me In simply isn?t up to the standards set by the original Swedish version,?Let the Right One In.?
The original movie was made to express a tiny bit of what happened in a very smart, very adult and very dark horror novel. The American version by contrast looks as if it had been made after reading a translation of the Swedish script without actually seeing the movie; or worse, seeing it and not understanding anything about what made it worth watching. There was extra gore, some CG, and the thing was set in the United States, but the movie looks like a necklace of cheap tricks leading to an obtuse conclusion.
Let me in is well-photographed and well-acted but that isn?t enough to make a set of bad ideas work. Despite obvious effort, nearly everything that was good about Let the Right One In that could have been good about Let Me In seems to be lost in translation.