Uro (2006)

Director:

Stefan Faldbakken

Writer:

Harald Rosenløw-Eeg (writer)

Release Date:

25 August 2006 (Norway)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Thriller

Plot:

Turning his back on a delinquent past and joining the police force, HP is determined to start doing the right thing. Soon he finds himself trapped in a web of lies, stretching out from both sides of the law. HP soon realizes that his present mission is closely connected to his own past, and that everything he worked so hard to escape from, is coming back to haunt him. |

Plot Keywords:

Police Raid | Police | Undercover Cop

Awards:

5 nominations

Cast

Nicolai Cleve Broch	...	Hans Petter
Ane Dahl Torp	...	Mette
Ahmed Zeyan	...	Marco
Bjørn Floberg	...	Frank Hermansen
Ingar Helge Gimle	...	Makker
Eivind Sander	...	Henning
Kim Sørensen	...	Anders
Anne Krigsvoll	...	Mother
Thorsten Flinck	...	Radovan
Nicholas Hope	...	The dealer
Bartek Kaminski	...	Vekteren
Jørgen Emmanuel	...	Tim
Anne Ryg	...	Avdelingsleder
Heidi Gjermundsen	...	Lege (as Heidi Gjermundsen Broch)
Marlene Vilberg	...	Danskens datter

Also Known As:

Restless (International: English title)

Runtime:

104 min

Country:

Norway

Language:

Norwegian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Norway:15 | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-15 | Germany:16

Company:

Friland

"Uro" doesn't impress...

All though this story is interesting in itself, the underlying emotional aspect is not given enough weight. Unfortunately the script is not good enough to make us understand, or at least care, about HP's bad and confusing choices during this 104 minutes. He makes weird and stupid decisions over and over again and it is just irritating...! The inter-human relations in this story are in addition badly reproduced. HP and Makker, HP and Mette, HP and Marco, HP and his dead father... We don't get the feeling that he is close to any of them, and yet their relation is supposed to mean more than what the film is able to express. Another thing that is weird, are scenes where people start shouting to each other without any obvious reason... People can get "caught in the moment" and engaged in a discussion of course, but two men yelling at each other in a block-apartment still seems weird when you see it on-screen. Difficult to explain, it just seemed a bit... "off". The action scenes is not at all bad. Norwegian film is definitely improving on this aspect. Nicolai Cleve Broch is a great actor, and he is convincing in his role as HP, but his character is not nuanced enough. I blame the script, cause he has already proved that he can manage this ambivalence in "Uno". Ane Dahl Torp is okay as Mette, but doesn't give much extra to the film. Ahmed Zeyan as Marco is also okay, but none of them "blows me away". Ingar Helge Gimle as "Makker" is all wrong!