The great German word fremdschämen means "secondary embarrassment", to feel ashamed by even just witnessing other peoples actions and feeling their shame. If there was a national level of this, this is what I felt when I watched this movie. It made me realize I had such a high regard for Norwegian cinema without even watching a single movie before.
Technically the movie is nice. Great sound effects. Very nice visuals and shots. Good acting. All these do not change the one horrible aspect of this movie, the bizarrely flawed script that I just could not manage to cover the loopholes of.
If you can ignore all these flashes and blinks in your neurons than you might enjoy the movie. However it provides so many open points, I have to list them as questions.
-----------------SPOILER BEYOND THIS POINT DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE MOVIE --------------
-Why would a company with "a billion dollar deal" get only his CEO and a strangely weak woman to handle its murder business? -How can this CEO work as a special ops commando up until a few years ago? -Why would he investigate a silly headhunter for some position? -Why would he sleep with the headhunters wife? -Why and how would he learn that the headhunter is an art thief? -Why would he lure him into his apartment to steal a painting (fake or not)? -Why would he try to poison or kill the headhunter? -Why does the headhunter art thief choose his own garage to transfer the painting to his partner? -...
I cant go on. I watch movies, I read novels, I like both. But I have never seen a script this shallow even in most Hollywood movies. This was really bad at some point we were wishing it stopped soon because this silly action story laced with horrendous love undertones was getting too ridiculous. It scares me that this movie has such high reviews because to me, nothing makes sense in it.
Technically the movie is nice. Great sound effects. Very nice visuals and shots. Good acting. All these do not change the one horrible aspect of this movie, the bizarrely flawed script that I just could not manage to cover the loopholes of.
If you can ignore all these flashes and blinks in your neurons than you might enjoy the movie. However it provides so many open points, I have to list them as questions.
-----------------SPOILER BEYOND THIS POINT DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE MOVIE --------------
-Why would a company with "a billion dollar deal" get only his CEO and a strangely weak woman to handle its murder business? -How can this CEO work as a special ops commando up until a few years ago? -Why would he investigate a silly headhunter for some position? -Why would he sleep with the headhunters wife? -Why and how would he learn that the headhunter is an art thief? -Why would he lure him into his apartment to steal a painting (fake or not)? -Why would he try to poison or kill the headhunter? -Why does the headhunter art thief choose his own garage to transfer the painting to his partner? -...
I cant go on. I watch movies, I read novels, I like both. But I have never seen a script this shallow even in most Hollywood movies. This was really bad at some point we were wishing it stopped soon because this silly action story laced with horrendous love undertones was getting too ridiculous. It scares me that this movie has such high reviews because to me, nothing makes sense in it.