I went to see this after I saw the trailer last week because I love the Scandinavian TV series that have been shown in Europe over the last few years. BTW, these series have been rated as "getting over the sub titles hangup" on TV....!!
Anyway, I loved Borgen which starred some of the same people.
However, although the acting/actors were first rate, and the photography good, if sombre, as it should have been, the story was trite.
I haven't see Le Prophete to which it is compared, but I have seen Shawshank. I cannot understand the comparison with Shawshank, a much better movie, not really on the same subject, except superficially.
It was gritty, nasty, illustrating well how low people can sink. So? As a movie supposedly about life in prison it was disjointed, bitty, disconnected. The general story line was clear, drug dealing in prison, but the relationships, the deals and the dealing, were poorly dealt with.
As was said in the previous reviews the last 20mins was hard to take, being so far from the rest of the movie.
For a production team with such a good filmography this is out of line.
