Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Ploydsge just watch it!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

paul2001sw-1 Michael Noer's 'film 'Northwest' tells the story of a couple of petty criminals in Denmark, who make the mistake of getting into more serious crime than they had perhaps intended. The aesthetic is very similar to one of the sub-plots in the recent television series 'Follow the Money', although without that drama's ludicrous plot. The story is quite convincing, but what's absent is the air of redeeming tenderness that a director such as Ken Loach might have brought to this subject matter: the protagonists are not particularly likable even at the start of their unfortunate journey, not clearly nicer than those who threaten them. The ambiguity of the ending seems wrong as well, nothing is added (and something is missed) with the decision to end the story at what should be its point of climax.

The Couchpotatoes This must be my first Danish movie or at least the first one that I remember. And it was a good one. I would have scored it an eight if it was not for the end that I thought was a bit disappointing. Well at least that's my point of view. It can be totally different for someone else. The story is well written and very easy to follow, even when you have to read subtitles. It's entertaining to watch with excellent acting from Gustav Dyekjær Giese. He plays with his brother Oscar Dyekjær Giese that has a slightly lesser important role but they both did a good job. This crime/drama tells the story of lost youth in Copenhagen, that kill their time with burglary, smoking joints and than evolve to more hardcore crime jobs. It's all filmed very well with good actors and it's pleasant to follow. Good movie.

Armand violence, family relationship and ways for survive. a good film, predictable in many parts, about gangsters, family, clash of races and dark affairs. all in right manner, without great surprises but far to be boring. more than a film, it is a series of questions about contemporary society. cold and sentimental in same measure, it is only picture of a part from Copenhague and, in same sense, drawing of a radical option. the basic virtue - its universal message. far to be a Danish story, it is a piece from many parts of Europe. and that fact does it not remarkable but special. because it is testimony about a crisis. not new but profound. and the last scene is exactly the necessary question.

MagyarRose I love realistic drama, and the creators of this film maintained the illusion of watching a good documentary, without commentary, but delivering slamming meaning, and meanings, just the same. The proliferation of single mothers raising a family is a bane to society, and young men growing up to think being silent and emotionless is the means to self actualization leads toward the fall.I could identify with Casper immediately, even being female, and not a burglar. I did not see him as a criminal but one who is flailing in existential angst with no hope of a future to get ahead. If he had had a Tiger mom, and along with all the other siblings had been made to study, instead of playing video games, and play hooky from school with impunity, there would not have been a movie. The mother is depicted as gentle, not crass, loving, but not having the means to discipline her brew.Casper's downfall is his ultimate sense of decency his younger brother does not have, and him I see as a criminal mind, a psychopathic personality who can't keep from bragging, and betrays his brother who made the mistake of coming back to help him.I really felt badly for the gals who were treated as chattel sex toys. Though I have never been in their position either, my heart cries out to all women who end up in such desperate, and deplorable conditions which only result in ultimate abandonment and downfall,symbolized by the hapless gal who gets shot and is immediately just shuffled off, and we are pretty sure it is not to a hospital.The frightening rise of kids being conceived out of wedlock and raised by single mothers or because of divorce, is not a good sign for the continued polarization of our society between the haves and the have-nots. We not only need more tiger moms, but tiger dads.