The Oath (Le serment d'Hippocrate)

I was having a rough week and wanted to watch something I knew would be high quality and a good watch so I looked for a Baltasar Kormakur joint. Always enjoy his films. This one has an interesting plot and good acting and beautiful shots of Iceland, but I think my main issue was I just did not like the daughter. Dad was doing his thing trying to look out for her but then he took it too far. Too bad because he seemed like a great doctor and cool father until this loser boyfriend showed up. His whole life went downhill fast. So this wasn't a great choice to cheer me up after my rough week but I'm glad I could check this one off my list. I'm trying to see everything BK does because I enjoy his work so much.

This was my first adventure into Icelandic films but hopefully, not my last. The storyline is not new. How many fathers have a stroppy son or daughter who mixes with the most unsavoury people? The film centres around how the doctor dad handles his daughter's involvement with a drug dealer who threatens him when he causes a new stash of drugs to fall into the hands of the police. How the doctor punishes the drug dealer is bizarre to say the least. He doesn't want to kill him but just wants to hold him long enough to get him to promise to leave his daughter alone. In a country with a population of only 350,000 people surely the police have a handle on who the major drug operators are. The plot fits into the cold and bleak Icelandic landscape quite well but it's not a film that will live long in the memory.

The movie has a gread subject and well actors. Also I admire the buildings as an architect. Thats also a good point but movie hasn't an ending. I think move is unfinished and needs a final scene about punishment of dad

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I gave this very worthy flick 10 stars just to redress the balance of the negative reviews it has received here.

Works on all levels. The dramatic tension is consistent throughout. The father/daughter relationship is very realistic, particularly her lack of self awareness and immaturity wich are very recognisable traits of addicts.

Gísli Örn Garðarsson was convincing as Ottar. He wasn't painted as just a two dimensional villain. Just as real villains are not just villains. They love, have families, have a sense of humour, pets and hobbies and are often victims of bigger villains than themselves.

I laud Baltasar Kormakur as both a fine director and actor.

This interesting drama, which participated in the official section of the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 2016, is performed by some of Iceland's best-known actors. Icelandic auteur Baltasar Kormákur ("Contraband", "2 Guns", "Everest") directs and stars as a troubled father, Finnur (Baltasar Kormákur), working as a surgeon decides to go to extreme measures to save his daughter Anna (Hera Hilmar) from the devastating influence of her drug-dealer boyfriend Ottar (Gísli Örn Garðarsson). But soon he sees that Otto has a darker side. In a final, desperate attempt to get evidence to use against . With boyfriends like this, enemies are the last thing you need!.Get rid Ottar's sick craving for Anna?. And his adoration turns to obsession, their dream into a nightmare, and her love into fear. Guys like him don't grow on trees, or even swing on them. But he might just hang you from one. The attraction was obvious...The danger wasn't. Now, if he can't have her...No one will. Attraction. Infatuation. Desire. Love. Fear. He wants to make you his...in the worst way. Sometimes, love is a good thing...to fear.

Some cleverness, but ultimately follows a familiar, cliched path littered one-dimensional characters and predictable plot twists. In this psychological thriller about a father who tries to pull his daughter out of her world of drugs and petty crime, only to find that danger can be found in unexpected places. Stars Baltasar Kormákur giving a decenta acting as a surgeon in his fifties who discovers that his daughter is totally immersed in the world of drugs and who will try to get her out no matter what the cost.

This is the second film (after 101 Reykjavík) in which the Icelandic filmmaker acts as both director, screenwriter, producer and protagonist. After directing ¨2 guns¨ and ¨Everest¨ in the United States, Kormákur returns to Iceland to film the highest-grossing film of 2006. Violent, unconventional climax kills any credibility that was left. The movie title refers to the Hippocratic Oath, which is traditionally sworn by doctors. Baltasar Kormákur and Gísli Örn Garðarsson standout as the girl's protective father and a violent delinquent boyfriend respectively.

It displays evocative and colorful cinematographt shot on location in Reikiavik, Lundarreykjadalur, Islandia. This highest grossing film of 2016 on Iceland was professionally directed Baltasar Kormákur. Baltasar who was born in Reykjavik, Iceland , is a good writer/Producer/filmmaker, an artisan who has directed a number of decent movies of all kinds of genres . As he has directed¨Contraband," which was a remake of Oskar Johansson's "Reykjavik Rotterdam," and he produced through his Blueeyes Productions, along with Working Title Films. Kormákur's next films were the thriller "2 Guns," starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, ¨The missionary , ¨The Oath¨ , ¨Adrift¨ , ¨Everest¨,among others . And his last one is ¨The Beast¨with Idris Elba . Rating : 6/10 . The picture will appeal to thriller enthusiasts.