And everyone else in the car … well, you’ve never seen so much blood, nor any people more certainly dead. You couldn’t have protected him better if you’d wrapped him in cut-out sections of Styrofoam, like we pack electronic equipment in. About all you can see of him is his head, poking out. Because our little guy is wedged between the two biggest, fattest identical twin cops in Norway. A police car with five people in it goes flying off a cliff and lands hard, a good ways below. It concerns the famous Fall From a High Place. Only once did I get a little dubious, and even that worked out okay for me. He gets hurt BAD, and oh, man, does this little guy suffer. I get so blasted tired of fistfights where people whale away at each other with fists and blunt objects, then shake it off in five seconds and sprint to the next scene of action that is just not survivable by anything I’d recognize as human. It is quite violent at times, but never overdone … though there is one scene that gives new meaning to that old expression, “in deep shit.” And it was hilarious. It kept surprising me, over and over, and these days, one surprise per twenty action movies is about the norm. On a budget the director describes (in a good “Making of” on the DVD) as about what Hollywood would spend on lunches, these people have taken a book and made a first-rate thriller. Do you know what that’s worth to me, these days? About a hundred Skyfalls, that’s what.
Here is an action movie that never insulted my intelligence. He goes in and gets it … and shortly after that, finds his accomplice dead in the front seat of his Mercedes, in his garage. Then he hears of a “lost” Reubens, worth possibly as high as a hundred million Norwegian Krone (about $17 million, at today’s rate). He’s behind on his gigantic house payment. He has an accomplice at the burglar alarm company who deactivates the systems long enough for him to get quickly in and out, and who later drives the stuff to Sweden for fencing.Īnd even this is not getting him enough money.
His job isn’t enough, so he has a sideline of going into houses and stealing valuable art works and leaving behind copies that will fool the eye of all but an expert for a while. He’s real good at it, but he’s a little guy married to a Norwegian Valkyrie easily a head taller than he is, and he feels compelled to provide her with the life-style he assumes she feels she is entitled to. Aksel Hennie is Roger Brown, a corporate headhunter, a man who finds the perfect person for any upper-level job.
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