solefab-53302 Reviews

The Venus Effect (2021)

Bad movie

[3/10 · 2 June 2022]

It's really af badly executed movie. The pace is really weird and the story is weird also.

It's a nice topic and I like watching a domestic lgbt-themed movie but it was not well put together. Also the whole plant-thing is not used properly but just annoying.

I felt like I needed a better backstory and I never trusted the story. Did the girls knew each other from the past or why did she loaned out her car to a stranger? The whole movie could have ended in the second scene by her saying no.

Positive: You get to see some well grown milk jugs.

Better watch 'Hvor Kragerne Vender' or something else. Maybe the first season of 'Doggystyle'. Also 'Onkel' is good and much more trustworthy.

In this movie I felt like the instructor wanted to show too much and it felt like a long dummy for a new TV-series.

The Marco Effect (2021)

Not good.

[2/10 · 27 May 2021]

This is really disappointing. The cast is simply awfully picked. The head police chief is normally the most cruel gangster boss in other shows and movies and I couldn't wrap my head around him being on the good side.

The coloring are dark and grey and is not very eye pleasing, but that must be the choice. I couldn't really differ the scenes from one another until the movie has some intensity at the end and the scenes had almost no life except his nicotine gum chewing.

The story is so bad to me, I believe the book is another thing. It was so slow but so little pleasing.

Such a disappointment. Absolutely the worst of the Afdeling Q-films and the previous are another level of entertainment.

This one is more dark and grey but even not very original or anything to me like for instance when I saw the first Stieg Larsson film.

There is nothing that made me interested beside the main character. Even the Roma-culture could be showed more and give more depth and color. I didn't understand where the little boy was from and why he went to Copenhagen with another passport. I didn't get most of the characters in the movie and why they appeared.

Why where the Roma group so aggressive and how could the boss speak Danish?

Another thing is that it is that maybe 90% of the outside scenes are in Czech Republic which make it not much of a Danish film and it is not very true to the viewer. I think it is a franchise for the International market so I may live with that.

Exit (2019–2023)

The best from Norway

[10/10 · 21 April 2021]

You cannot not we drawn into this show. Both seasons are insane. The characters and crew must have had a blast making this.

What I really like is NRK taking up the battle against the big steaming giants.

Darkland (2017)

Can't give it anymore

[2/10 · 9 November 2018]

This is a really bad movie. Because of all the intensions.

The storyline is so out of any plausible story. Which is disappointing because the leading star, Dar Salim, almost would have played the role by himself. He has it all. He is unique. He tells a story even just by looking at him. It's like this PTSD-soldier look.

It could be awesome. If it wasn't made out this big. If it was made way smaller. Let the pictures tell.

I can't figure out what the movie wants. It isn't a story. If a movie doesn't have a story I won't categorise it as a movie. It fails.

Go watch Pusher I, II, first 40 minutes of Bleeder and the to/three first episodes of 'Kriger'.

All or Nothing: Manchester City (2018)

Unbelievable

[10/10 · 18 August 2018]

Awesome. Made me feel like playing for Man City. What a show.

Would recommend this to everyone with the slightest interest in football. I have myself watched shows like 'Hard Knocks' from NFL and 'Road to Winter Classic' in the NHL. It is made like them with player portraits, inside and around training, team talks, match highlights and celebrations. Very cool.

Recommends!

Pusher II (2004)

One of my favorite movies all time

[9/10 · 18 July 2016]

Being from Denmark I was introduced to Pusher in a early stage. I have lived in pretty much all of the settings of the trilogy (Vesterbro, Nørrebro, Nordvest, Amager) I feel blessed by this movie by Winding Refn. He just captures some of most raw and realistic environments.

The sequel is not as fast moving as the first but nonetheless still a top tier to me. The story of Tonny is so well portrayed, both by using a great cast of non professional actors and by the cinematography it self greatly inspired by the wave of Danish Dogma 95 - yet still very different.

Tonny is one of my favorite movie characters. A life full of harshness, being constantly pushed down and on the lowest rank in his surroundings.

I am one of the greatest domestic fans of Winding Refn and Mads Mikkelsen - happy to see they are doing so well at the international film scene.

Would also recommend "Bleeder", also a great Winding Refn film with all three Pusher- stars of Mads Mikkelsen, Kim Bodnia and Zlatko Buric.

The Commune (2016)

Unfortunately, a very incomplete piece

[2/10 · 27 February 2016]

The scenery in the commune is all about the fuzz. Lovely to watch a scenery from a 70's. Fine performances by the whole crew of actors.

Firstly, the line of story has some really weak spots. The turnaround of Anna, she persuades Erik in not selling the house and start a commune with some friends. Erik feels overlooked ONE time by her wife at a joyful dinner party. Minutes later he has found relief in a student of his which becomes his second girlfriend.

Anna openly accepts it in a awkward scene between Erik and Anna. Ulrich Thomsen is just one of the most awkward people to portrait the life of a couple. I didn't know whether to laugh or not.

Why does Anna turn from being a the main fire of the whole commune-thing into a deep crisis? It doesn't make sense, from what we know.

The woman is a very good looking and successful news host in television. She has a largely part of the Danish population of men to adore her.

To me, that makes the story unreliable. The movie could have been a lot more interesting, if she went with the flow and found her own sexual way of dealing with her challenge. It doesn't make sense that she is the one who crashes and become the victim of her own free spirit. You could tell the exact same story in 2016-settings. So why use a 70s commune setting if you won't use and exploit the unique spirit of open sexual relationships?

The Commune would have been a great pitch for a TV-show, likewise 'Arvingerne', 'Sommer' and so on. 10 episodes. Let's get deeper into the different characters, when the movie doesn't the have time. Why does Allon cry all the time? Why does Ole always burn other peoples stuff? Why does Mona lay with so many men? Why is Steffen so co-dependent? And let's see more about the development of the teen-years of Freja.

Instead, the movie which is a love story between three people, it fails as a comedy in a commune in the lustful 70's.

Indeed, Trine Dyrholm plays the role very authentically. I don't know if it is the luck of Thomas Vinterberg or maybe the movie would have been complete different without her going in destruction.

Again, would have been a great episode in a TV-show. But fails as a movie.