★★★☆☆The second crime thriller to come from director Michael Noer (whose previous film, 2010's R: Hit First, Hit Hardest, was a collaboration between himself and fellow Dane Tobias Lindholm), Northwest (2013) does little that's new but still does enough to grip and occasionally thrill over the course of its necessarily brief runtime. Taking place within the Nordvest suburb of Copenhagen, notorious for its high crime rates and relative poverty, Noer's dark tale of low-level drug dealers and seedy sex traffickers is at its best when at home with the film's two shaven-headed brothers, the eldest of whom quickly finds himself seduced by the types of luxuries a life of crime can offer a willing footsoldier with "balls of steel".
- 7/29/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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