Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The_Dead_See I'm not sure I've seen a film as satisfyingly simple as 'Flukt' in years.The year is 1363. The place is Norway, recently decimated by the bubonic plague. A young girl's family is murdered by a group of roving bandits and the girls is taken hostage. With the help of another young girl within the group of bandits, she escapes and the two girls flee across breathtakingly beautiful Norwegian landscapes with the bandits in close pursuit. This, in a nutshell, is the entire movie.I'm a fan of simple films. I think the present day trend to blend too many subplots leads to 3 hour, convoluted, bloated stinkers (The Dark Knight and Pirates of the Caribbean, I'm looking at you...) but in some ways 'Flukt' was too simple for its own good. I was invested in the wellbeing of the two girls but I never really felt a sense of danger or surprise because the plot played it so safe and trod such predictable ground. You know this is going to turn out okay and even the ways in which the antagonists are dispatched are unfortunately over-telegraphed.I would have loved to have seen a bit more of an edgy approach to the plot, a few twists and turns that weren't so obvious. But still, it's beautifully shot, beautifully acted, and exciting enough to keep your attention. Also clocking in at only 78 minutes, it's so short that even if you dislike it, you won't feel like you wasted any time.

TxMike I found this nice, interesting movie on Netflix streaming movies. Not much longer than an hour, and probably shot with a very modest budget, it is in Norwegian with English subtitles.The premise is as follows - it is set in Norway in the year 1363, about 10 years after the black death killed about half of the population. Now some people are starting to move around in the hopes of finding a better life.As it opens we see a family of four, the daughter is about 16 or 18 and the young son maybe 10. They are driving their horse-drawn wagon along a rustic rural road when they are attacked by a band of 6. The mother and father are killed at the road, the young boy runs into a pasture area and he is shot from behind and killed too. But the daughter is spared and they bring her along back to their camp.The plot is very sinister, the person who killed the little boy is a woman, and the leader of the group, which also includes a young girl of maybe 10 or 11. She was found alone after her parents had died, and now they wanted a little sister for her. But the woman who leads the group can no longer have children so they want to use the captured teenager to conceive a child with one of the men and have a "little sister" for the girl.The title of the movie is (translated) "Escape" so that sort of gives away what will happen. And indeed the teenager escapes and the chase is on.It is a pretty brutal film depicting what probably was a brutal time, but it is very well made and worth a viewing.SPOILERS: What the story really does is return its focus on "family", and it isn't necessarily who your real parents are, but who becomes your family when times get tough. The two girls manage to elude the group for a while and the teen gradually figures out how to kill them off. In the end all are dead and the two girls walk off, hand-in-hand, to start their new lives together.

LauraLeeWasHere If you had told me I would be watching a subtitled Norwegian film, I would have told you to, "Go ahead and pull the other leg". But a long weekend was in front of me and I wanted to rent a few movies to enjoy some moments of escapism. So when I saw the title, "Escape" I was drawn to it. After reading the short description, in which it did NOT mention it was either NORWEGIAN or SUBTITLED, I decided to rent it. I found out about the Norwegian when writing came on the screen to explain the set up for the story. While I was having an "Oh no. What's this?" moment on the inside, I instinctively was reading the translation on the outside: " 1638 Norway; black plague has killed half the population; lawlessness and hardship covers the land; a few people risk the danger to wander in the hope of finding new lives and new hope." I was hooked. It takes only another few minutes for the action to begin. Like those nightmares we all get where something big and horrible is trying to catch us and we feel too small and weak to defend ourselves, this appears to be your typical "Chase" movie. Just like the Terminator. At the heart, it is the story of two young girls running through the bleak, barren and beautiful landscape to escape from a gang of ruthless killers, led by a bleak, barren and beautiful woman. But beyond that it departs from usual "chase" territory when the story gradually reveals the reasons behind what's going on. As we learn about the characters histories and motivations of hate, love, selfishness and pain, which are believably brought to life by the sincere and fierce acting of this cast (especially the main actors: Isabel Christine Andreasen, Milla Olin and Ingrid Bolso Berdal) we can't help but ask the deeper question: "whom" is truly escaping "what"? So unlike other "Chase" films, you will want to leave your brain powered ON for this one. It takes a lot for me to give a movie 9 stars out of 10. My main criteria is two fold. 1) Is there anything about this movie I would change or fix? and 2) Was I lost in the story? The Answers: 1) I could find nothing I personally would change and 2) I was definitely "captured" by this story and did NOT want to "escape". Laura-Lee

Jonas Slede (shsleen) With lack of other movies to watch in Norway, I decided to watch this on a lonely Friday night. I had never heard of it before I stood in line to buy a ticket. The movie was looking good based on the poster, and there wasn't much to read about it on the internet.The movie starts with a family of four moving away from their old town. The movie takes place 10 years after the Black Death. On the road, they get stopped due to the cliché moment of stones in the road, and guess what's happening now? Yes, raiders. After the raiders taunt their parents, the little boy try to run away. He gets shot by the leader with a crossbow. But, the girl get's another fate. The leader of the raiders, a woman who had to escape her old town after she gets the blame for the pest when it arrives. She had a girl with her, who wanted a little sister, but she couldn't get anymore children.They take the girl with them back to the camp, where they bind her up. As the name suggests, she escapes. With the little girl.The rest of the movie is just a bad chase scene. I got bored after 5 minutes, but it would't end. I think the movie is supposed to be thrilling, but no. The end up on the top of a cliff, where the girl jumps, and the small one goes back to the raiders. This is where the movie should have ended, but no. They had to do a cliché ending with her killing the raiders, and escaping with the girl.My favorite part was the credits. One of the only good things with the movie, was the landscape and graphical quality.