Arne Dahl: Misterioso

I gave up during the scene where the whole team gathered at the potential victim's house in anticipation that the killer would show up that night and ended up catching the former's son. This was worthy of the Keystone Kops.

Its worth 10 / 10

It was a very exciting movie, just the right amount of litigation, action - thriller - romantic, without being excessive.

Magnus S. did a brilliant effort, I think.

It did not feel like a repetition of all the other Swedish police films that we have received for many of, it was professional made ​​and action scenes what top-notch, I think. For example, if you compare to 'Beck', 'Wallander' and so on. where you at once and can easily see that there is a Swedish film.

I think the movie was very clever, it was not possible to directly rank out who was the murderer, but was consistent and entertaining.

Scandanavian crime thrillers have been spreading across the world in recent years: the superb 'The Killing', the stylish (though silly) 'The Bridge', or the various reconditionings of 'Wallander', fundamentally a Swedish version of 'Inspector Morse'. This dramatisation of a set of stories by crime write Arne Dahl about a specialist crime unit are the latest to make it to the UK; but sadly, they demonstrate that not everything is brilliant just because it's from the north. Although realist in tone, the plots of each two part episode feel immensely contrived and over-complex, while the background soap-opera, the private lives of its immensely ordinary protagonists, is both dull and obvious. And the whole thing is so slow: each three hour slug crawls forward, yet the details of the story seem hard to remember, with endless similar scenes and more blood than tension. Understated is one thing; but this is neither truly believable, nor (in any sense) fun.

Despite having a couple of decent characters, the writing is horrible and some of the acting isn't all that great, either. I don't know what the book is like, but hopefully it's not quite as dumb as this. This feels like a police drama written by someone who has no idea what police do or how they work. It's unusual. And Viggo, one of the detectives, is incompetent and honestly too unintelligent to be a detective.

I like some of the other more recent Arne Dahl shows, but this one is pretty rough.

And it was okay switching from different accents was a bit hard at first from Swede to dutch then English but keep watching as your just get used to it.