In Sorte Kugler (Black Balls) we follow Anders Matthesen as Alex Stein, a not so successful real estate agent. He is rude, jealous, don't pay attention his little daughter or his beautiful wife.
His wife is a police officer, something Alex wanted to be as well, but he failed.
One day Alex is driving to close a deal on a house, but drops a cup of coffee in his lap, thus resulting in a crash into a car coming from the right.
Alex dies, but he doesn't go to heaven or hell. Instead he goes to a special place where he can gamble upon whether or not he'll live or die. It's a series of tests to see if Alex is a good person. Wrong answers results in black balls being put into a tube, right answers puts white balls in another tube. If the white balls overflow first, Alex lives, but if the black balls beats them, Alex dies.
As expected, Alex is put through some not very easy situations that calls for extreme (for him) patience and honesty. Anders Matthesen is at his best, being an angry, frustrated Alex and the movie does give us some rather good laughs.
I enjoyed the scene with Alex and his mother a lot, perhaps because it kinda reminds me of situations I recognize.
But, alas, the movie is over far too quickly. Clocking in at about 80 minutes - barely - it falls a bit short. And the ending is - as has been noted by others - far to glossy and happy. A happy ending is fine, but this is happy in the extreme. I know it's supposed to be funny because of its extremity, but I must admit I was a bit disappointed by how Matthesen wrapped this one up.
He has the talent and the wit. A sharp and fast wit. It comes to life in a few scenes during the movie (like when he comments on his sisters way with words and sentence construction, loved that scene), but it seems he either had too little time or too few good ideas for the movie.
Had it been 30 minutes longer - 30 minutes of awesome Alex screen time - and the ending been a bit more realistic, I would have given this an 8 or 9. As it is, it's just about a 7.
His wife is a police officer, something Alex wanted to be as well, but he failed.
One day Alex is driving to close a deal on a house, but drops a cup of coffee in his lap, thus resulting in a crash into a car coming from the right.
Alex dies, but he doesn't go to heaven or hell. Instead he goes to a special place where he can gamble upon whether or not he'll live or die. It's a series of tests to see if Alex is a good person. Wrong answers results in black balls being put into a tube, right answers puts white balls in another tube. If the white balls overflow first, Alex lives, but if the black balls beats them, Alex dies.
As expected, Alex is put through some not very easy situations that calls for extreme (for him) patience and honesty. Anders Matthesen is at his best, being an angry, frustrated Alex and the movie does give us some rather good laughs.
I enjoyed the scene with Alex and his mother a lot, perhaps because it kinda reminds me of situations I recognize.
But, alas, the movie is over far too quickly. Clocking in at about 80 minutes - barely - it falls a bit short. And the ending is - as has been noted by others - far to glossy and happy. A happy ending is fine, but this is happy in the extreme. I know it's supposed to be funny because of its extremity, but I must admit I was a bit disappointed by how Matthesen wrapped this one up.
He has the talent and the wit. A sharp and fast wit. It comes to life in a few scenes during the movie (like when he comments on his sisters way with words and sentence construction, loved that scene), but it seems he either had too little time or too few good ideas for the movie.
Had it been 30 minutes longer - 30 minutes of awesome Alex screen time - and the ending been a bit more realistic, I would have given this an 8 or 9. As it is, it's just about a 7.