Fifty-fifty

Fifty-Fifty by Oddvar Bull Tuhus is a Norwegian road movie about a fictive band. Some youngsters decide to start a band. Sad to say, the film feels clichéd, nad is filled with bad acting. The dialogue is very poor, due to a rather bad script, and humourous dialog doesn't function. It's actually always way off. The film also lacks the drive to make us interested. The script tries hard, but fails in delivering even the faintest realistic atmosphere. Even the music feels contrived. Visually the film is OK, but the film is an example on how bad Norwegian movies were at the time. Some years later, the Norwegian film industry took grip, and started making films which also got international attention. This, however, is not at all a proud moment.

This is a Norwegian road movie about a band. Everything is unsubtle and extremely clichéd, the acting is mainly awful, the dialogue is exceptionally poor, and what is probably meant to be humour is always way off. Apart from that, the movie is also astonishingly boring, there's nothing happening "between the lines". The script tries hard, but fails miserably to come up with cool lines and a realistic atmosphere of free-spiritedness.

There are some long rock music parts, mainly live performances. They could have saved the movie, but unfortunately the music is also very poor. I found nothing in this movie to appreciate, except perhaps the visual bit. As it is an attempt to make an entertaining film, it doesn't have any of the artsy atmosphere that made many poorly scripted European movies of this era good to great. In sum, simply dreadful.