(Sökarna)

The first thing we should realize here is that I have judged this movie not by how professional the actors are or how good the filming is, but for the general feeling this movie gives you.

If you grew up in Sweden in the eighties or nineties you WILL recognize a lot of details in this movie. The script may not be to good written, but the movie has a very clear message to send to the viewers.

This movie is really fun to watch everytime just because of the funny quotes that are made in the movie. Really stereotype characters and extremely violent, but in some way interesting to see how this young director want to display the life in the suburbs of a swedish major city.

Love it or Hate it. Compare it with "Boyz in the Hood" if you'd like

This movie is really cool even though there are to much early 90's reminders in it. I just love the scenery and the acting. you want to watch a real swedish gansgta movie rent this one. Liam was the kind of gangster he played in this movie ( he has changed to the better now.. he found god). I really hope they will show his upcoming movies on cinemas.

Wow. This really is a lousy movie. There is not one single instance in this film where it doesn't feel like a comedy trying to pull itself off as a thriller. And we know what happens then, don't we? Complete with 2D-characters and single-minded acting, some grotesque details and stupid dialogue, "Sökarna" slithers at the bottom of the heap of bad Swedish movies. Looking back at this film feels like looking back towards the end of a very long tunnel - even though it was made as late as '92.

Well...I hear of a sequel. And unless the guy with the skinned fox on his shoulder (yes, you heard me) is in it, I won't go see it.

this is a exellent film to watch a rainy night with your friends.. their old Stockholm ghetto talk is really something! I really recomend this film too all the swedish IMDB members out there!

ghetto talk: "kom igen vi shappar"

"biga pengar"

"vi slaggar här ikväll"

"va fan vill du??....fitta!

Undoubtedly "Sökarna" is a Swedish classic. For all it's awful quality it influenced a whole genre of Swedish film. Loads of movies like this one were made, with actors who try hard and fail miserably and with enthusiastic film-makers that have no grasp of the art of film-making but won't let that stop them.

"Sökarna" tells the story of a troubled young man named Jon who keeps getting into fights and slips further and further into a life of crime. Since this is a Swedish movie, all ends in the darkest tragedy. But if you have seen Swedish social-realism before you already knew that.

The acting is generally awful. The only actor really getting away with it is the underestimated Torsten Flinck, who was actually a good actor before all the coke and alcohol burned his brain away. Here he's truly disgusting as the man who fosters Jon in prison to become a real hardcore criminal. If Flinck is the top when it comes to acting, P-G Hylén most certainly is the bottom. Why it would be "cool" to dress up in Lederhosen and grind yourself with raw meat, just to show what a bad-ass you are, is beyond me. Although i must admit it makes for one of the most memorable scenes in a Swedish movie yet, on par with Max Von Sydow playing chess against Death in "The Seventh Seal".

When all is said and done "Sökarna" is highly entertaining. It's just so awful that you can't help liking it at least a little bit. The lack of real actors, the lack of funding (represented nicely by the fact that the police cars in this movie are just black cars with a "P" painted on the side) and the complete lack of directorial talent from Daniel Fridell. It's sort of an Ed Wood of Swedish teenage films. Awful but endearing.

I rate it 5/10 for originality, 1/10 for quality and 10/10 for early 90's nostalgia.