With a budget of 45,000,000 SEK, one might have thought that this movie would revolutionize the way we look at Swedish action films. In all honesty, it never came close.
I was pretty stoked about this film, mainly because of all the hype it received prior to screening. I became particularly interested when I heard that Kathrine Windfeld would direct it. One of the selling points the movie had was that it was directed by a woman, something that according to the actors themselves would bring more depth to the characters.
Well, that didn't happen at all. Mikael Persbrandt is playing himself, basically. Boring, a "try-to-look-cool-for-the-camera guy", while delivering his lines like there was a teleprompter in front of him.
There is no real development of the characters, and the plot just falls flat pretty early in the movie. This movie tries to hard, making it just another film in the dozen. Also, the English spoken by the Swedish actors is extremely bad, it really distracts and completely ruins bits of the experience.
On the positive side (yes, there are some), I have to mention the special effects. The team did a solid job on that, kudos!
Other than that, I would not recommend you seeing this. It's worth a rent at the most, some people might enjoy seeing a Swedish blockbuster. A big flop, unfortunately!
I was pretty stoked about this film, mainly because of all the hype it received prior to screening. I became particularly interested when I heard that Kathrine Windfeld would direct it. One of the selling points the movie had was that it was directed by a woman, something that according to the actors themselves would bring more depth to the characters.
Well, that didn't happen at all. Mikael Persbrandt is playing himself, basically. Boring, a "try-to-look-cool-for-the-camera guy", while delivering his lines like there was a teleprompter in front of him.
There is no real development of the characters, and the plot just falls flat pretty early in the movie. This movie tries to hard, making it just another film in the dozen. Also, the English spoken by the Swedish actors is extremely bad, it really distracts and completely ruins bits of the experience.
On the positive side (yes, there are some), I have to mention the special effects. The team did a solid job on that, kudos!
Other than that, I would not recommend you seeing this. It's worth a rent at the most, some people might enjoy seeing a Swedish blockbuster. A big flop, unfortunately!