InspireGato Film Perfection

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Armand the piece who defines the movie is the profound humanity. that fact explains its status of dark sketch. because, more important than story is the admirable acting. a film who seems be a trip in middle of instincts, pain and broken masks, it is, in fact, touching exercise of self definition.the image, the script, the performances are real good. film about sin in its deep dimension, it is religious out of the ordinaries rules of genre. because it is not exactly about the faith but about the sense.because the image is the lead character. a film like a parable. cold, honest, impressing. a special story about the choices and their price. it is not a bad idea to see it. maybe, for discover the world. maybe, yourself. in a different light.

Coventry Xenophobia. Xen-o-pho-bi-a. Noun: an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange. The definition of the word does not only describe in one word the main theme of Ole Bornedal's latest film but also the vast majority of main and supportive characters that appear in the story. The writer/director of "Nattevagten" – which still stands as one of the best European thrillers ever made according to yours truly – serves us a simplistic and sadly identifiable story, set in a remote little community where everyone knows and accepts each other but distrusts and reject outsiders. Imagine yourself the type of place where a traumatized war fugitive tries hard to fit in and accept jobs that nobody else wants, but at the same time the local drunks and lowlifes complain that these immigrants are stealing their jobs. This is a controversial but sadly all too familiar topic, and it takes a talented and courageous director to make a confronting – albeit sometimes grotesque and exaggerated – movie out of it. Johannes and his family return back to his birthplace in the countryside, where they bought an old mansion that he is renovating with the more than welcome help of a Bosnian fugitive named Alain. Most of the town folks are marginal proletarians, however, like Johannes' brother Lars who's an alcoholic, pregnant girlfriend beating truck driver. On the day before the town's annual highlight – a carnival with a beer tent – Lars runs his truck over a sweet old granny who was on her way to the chapel on her moped. Lars frames Bosnian immigrant Alain for her death, which instantly causes the entire town to go on an aggressive and drunken manhunt. Johannes is the only person protecting Alain and they all entrench themselves in the house as the outrageous lynch mob arrives. I watched "Deliver Us From Evil" at the Belgian Festival of Fantastic Films, where Ole Bornedal was present to introduce the movie himself. He said this was probably the most brutal movie he'd ever make. He's right, of course, but there simply isn't any other way to tell such a raw and shocking but sadly realistic story. According to Bornedal, the media and politicians want to make us believe that bad people only live in the Middle Eastern area, but this movie and its crude but recognizable characters prove otherwise. The comparisons with Sam Peckinpah's early 70's classic "Straw Dogs" are more than justified. Both film slowly but uncannily build up towards a shocking climax that only leaves behind victims. The dead and dying can't repent for the type of sins they committed and even the survivors won't be able to live happily ever after. If you decide to watch "Deliver Us From Evil", prepare yourself for devastating viewing experience, with a continuously unpleasant atmosphere and a number of truly gritty images, that will spook through your head for several more days. But it's more than worth it.

chrisserkbh The only good thing about this movie was the acting from Jens Andersen which was excellent. Else this movie was just total nonsense. Exaggerated in every sense and during the entire movie I was thinking what the hell is this. It tries to describe the life of people in the suburb and trying to make it interesting, pointless exaggerated violence is created.For this movie Ole Bornedal really failed.the acting from Aqua Lene was also okay.Lasse Rimmer is bad casted for this movie. He is to nice guy material and gives his part a science fiction feeling

Charbax Lasse Rimmer delivers an amazing performance in his first movie role. This movie is full of fun, witty, dark humor, it's action-packed, the Cinematography is pretty sublime.This Danish Film actually has many deep cinematic moments. It now makes me want to watch all the previous movies by Ole Bornedahl. Just Another Love Story, The Substitute and I Am Dina, yup I definitely now want to go check those out. Cause the direction in this film definitely gives me a certain confidence that Ole Bornedahl is one cool danish film Director who knows how to make good film and who knows what he is doing.Lasse Rimmer is known in Denmark for his part in Danish TV history's funniest TV show called Casper and the Mandril appointment from 1999. It may even be the worlds best TV show ever made. I cannot wait to see Lasse Rimmer in more (ups! Beware the spoiler alert!) psycho-killer- roles (end of spoiler alert), Lasse Rimmer does it awesomely! Standing Ovation! Really!Denmark has deep problems with racism and integration of immigrants in actual society. If this movie can become one of the most influential and most successful Danish movies of the year, it could make a big contribution to solve this whole problem in the Danish consciousness. It does not at all try to teach viewers a lesson of morality. It instead uses racism and conflicts of social groups in such an extremely blatant manner, that one can only sit back and laugh very loudly from the belly. In fact I heard people at my screening laughing pretty loudly and strangely pretty often times, but people didn't dare make a standing-ovation, I think movie-goers should do more standing ovations even at regular film screenings in regular cinemas when the film makers are not in the room.Danish Cinema, as far as I see it, does also have too small an ambition to create really good fiction moments in movies, and rather goes with realistic situations. This movie instead already goes much further in the area of complete insanity, deep psychopathics, action-packed killings, awesome and fun dialogs. This is a step for Danish movies that goes in my opinion in the right direction. Go at it!