In Order of Disappearance
In Order of Disappearance
| 21 February 2014 (USA)
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Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”

Reviews
Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.
Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
paul2001sw-1 We might be used to the (usually American) revenge movie, and Scandinavian noir, as two different genes. But 'In the Order of Disappearance" combines the two, as a snowplough driver seeks to punish those responsible for the death of his son, and incidentally starts a gang war as he does so. The tone of the film is peculiar, in places it's solemn, in others it feels more like a comedy, and I found it hard to care about any of its protagonists, even the hero (whose behaviour is, by any rational standards, a massive over-reaction, in spite of the insult that has been done to him). It's certainly an unusual film, but that does not mean it's a great one.
Paul Allaer "In Order of Disappearance" (2014 release from Norway; 115 min.) brings the story of Nils, a Swedish guy longtime resident of northern Norway. As the movie opens, Nils and his wife are getting ready to accept the "Citizen of the Year" award of the local chamber of commerce. Nils, who runs a snow removal equipment business, accepts the award with humility and dignity. In a parallel story line, we see a couple of young men getting kidnapped and one of them eventually dies. It turns out to be Nils' son, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, getting mixed up in a local drug gang. Nils knows his son was not an addict and decides to look into the circumstances of the death of his son... At this point we are 15 min. into the movie, but to tell you more would spoil your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.Couple of comments: this is the latest movie from Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland in which he collaborates with Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, who plays Nils. The movie was billed on Google Movie Times as a "comedy" and in a sense it might be one, but a very dark one, if that. I found the movie to be a so(m)ber crime drama, in which Skarsgård plays "Joe Sixpack" who is out for revenge of his son's death. Sure there are chuckles here and there, but to me the film resonates a lot more on the level of how an average guy turns out to be a systematic and determined revenge-seeker. The setting of the film, somewhere in northern Norway, is gorgeous, and the use of the snow blowers and snow removal equipment is almost balletic.This movie is two years old now, and for some reason just popped up in the theater. I saw it this past weekend at the E Street Landmark Theater in Washington, DC. The matinée screening where I saw this at was attended very nicely. No idea why it has taken this long to get into US theaters, but better late than never I suppose. In the meantime I read somewhere that this movie is going to be remade by Hollywood, but without Skarsgård. Say it ain't so! If you are in the mood for a foreign language crime drama with undertones of a dark, if not black, comedy, you cannot go wrong with this. "In Order of Disappearance" is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
eryui A nice black comedy, sometimes funny, that does not let you screaming to masterpiece! Beautiful scenarios, good actors and a rather simple plot. A story of revenge and a linked series of deaths due to a single mistake.A movie quietly watchable and enjoyable that, apart for some nice aspects, does not leave amazed. A sort of mix between Tarantino and the Choen brothers, but that the they would make probably a bit more engaging.Mostly watchable7/10
billcr12 Serbian criminals, Swedish criminals, Norwegian bad guys, Albanian bad guys; it is all here in this hilarious Tarantino inspired Swedish crime drama. A young man is killed but his death is ruled an overdose, and thus begins a wild revenge thriller. The boys father takes it upon himself to track down and kill his son's murderers. The guy drives a giant snow plow, clearing massive amounts of snow while at the same time turning into Charles Bronson's character in Death Wish; which is referenced in this clever script. Any writer who can work the cereal Fruit Loops into dialogue between the main villain and his baby mama and ex girlfriend gains my highest respect. The film combines the best aspects of Fargo and Reservoir Dogs with a great cast and enough tongue-in-cheek humor to make this one of the ten best movies of the year.