MamaGravity
good back-story, and good acting
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Tyreece Hulme
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
pluto2se
This movie features several well known actors which I usually like, so I had at least modest expectations when I rented this on DVD. I was highly disappointed. In fact I walked off for some snacks somewhere during the last half hour and somehow I ended up in the kitchen rather then going back to the TV. The actor performances where poor pretty much all across the board and none of the atmospheres in the movie felt very convincing. Virtually all scenes had that "just a movie" feeling to them, I just sat there waiting to hear the director calling "CUT!" followed by the crew having a little chat about the scene before moving on to the next.Since the movie is about gangsters most characters are tough and mob-like, the problem here is just that this whole bad-boy attitude is played out so poorly that it just feels like a joke. The constant guitar-drilling soundtrack really tries to emphasize this atmosphere too, but when the same track is played the 18th time it just adds to the already strong feeling of the whole thing just being fake.Maybe it was just a really really bad script, maybe it was just poorly executed. I'm no movie critic, in fact I consider it rare to see something that's REALLY good, but this was just plain bad no matter how objective and forgiving I'm trying to be. NOT recommended, not even as a rental!
Anthonysthlm
This story contains two beautiful love stories. Both relate to two siblings. Antonio and Nathalie. Antonio is torn between an old girlfriend Tanya who is a cop and a new one Jasmin that is the right hand woman of The gangster boss Thomas Steel. The other love story involves Nathalie, Antonio's kid sister. One night she meets this rich young man called Alexander. I don't want reveal why they meet since that would give away too much of the plot, but through this unexpected meeting Alexander's life totally changes. The story has elements of film noir and mixes cars from the fifties with cell phones. Mikael Persbrandt who plays the Gangster boss who Antonio works for is superb. The settings are magnificent. I have never seen anything like it in a Swedish film.
forums-17
Where do I start. Lets list the good things about this movie first.1. Mikael Persbrandt is great as the Gangster Thomas. This is the only character you will actually care about, and he's a bad guy! (allthogh never does anything bad, and is generally a pretty likable guy) 2. Kjell Bergkvist is always great. He's a bit toned down here, but he is quite funny still 3. The movie looked pretty good by Swedish standards, good use of depth of field and lights.Now the bad. This is by far the worst script to make it into the big screen ever. The acting by everyone else was pretty bad and over the top. The direction was horrible. A totally meaningless story, totally unrealistic characters and events and 1.5 hours to long. During emotional scenes pretty much everyone in the theater laughed. People just started walking out during the course of the screening. There's no way to actually summarize the story into something coherent, so I wont even try. Every cliché ever conceived is in there, and in all the wrong places. I'm sorry to say this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my entire life. Watch it for a good laugh, but try not to pay any money for it ;).R
Zeatrix
I watched a preview showing and before one of the producers explained that this is a saga set in well known Stockholm locations but with chicks in high heels and guns.The acting was sometimes bad and drew some laughs from the audience, but overall it the acting was OK. The movie is obviously not realistic and it doesn't pretend to be. There were a lot of memorable characters but no real character development, except maybe for the son of a shipowner. The references to other great gangster or mob movies like Godfather and Goodfellas are obvious but the movie doesn't try to be like them, but to pay homage to them.Overall an OK film with some funny moments.
