Jägarna 2

I'm really beginning to dig these Swedish/Nordic/Icelandic crime thrillers more and more. At the outset, the stories seem relatively simple, but as the film goes on, and with all the twists and turns presented, you begin to realize all is not as it seems on the surface.

Overall, I found no fault with the acting. Everyone played their part as they should. Direction was spot on. If I had a complaint it was the movie drags in spots. The Swedish hinterlands were also captured vividly by the cinematographer - pristine lakes, deep green forestry, wide multicolored skies, etc. Kind of reminds me of the Pacific Northwest.

"Jägarna 2" is a really powerful swedish crime thriller.

This film really shows how a good script can make up for minor editing and/or directorial mistakes. And even though that might sound harsh, altogether this was a great experience which gets the viewer hooked pretty much right from the start.

It not only uses the classical suspense a lá Hitchcock, but also makes one deal with feelings of injustice, tension and a need for gratification.

Also, compared to all the "cheap" crime thrillers out there, this one combines a good crime story with real characters, who have emotions and more importantly goals.

I'd definitely recommend this picture to everyone who wants to widen their horizon when it comes to films and stories of this particular genre.

This Swedish detective mystery is a film which is a sequel to a 90's movie I haven't actually seen, so I can't say how this one measures up against the original. Nevertheless, what can be said with certainty is this is another Scandinavian film which falls comfortably under the Nordic noir bracket. Like other north European thrillers, this one covers some dark and disturbing territory. A Stockholm police detective is sent to a small rural community to help solve the case of a missing girl, presumed murdered. He finds his more methodical methods at odds with the style of the lead police officer assigned to the case, a man who happens to be married to his widowed sister-in-law and who is now the father to his nephew.

This is another solid bit of Nordic noir, yet I would classify it as a lesser example of the sub-genre. While it is undoubtedly a compelling enough crime story, the resolution to the mystery isn't perhaps very surprising and revealed quite early at that. This is compounded further by the film being a little overlong at two hours plus, given its quite basic and relatively straightforward narrative, while the final confrontation sequence was a bit too much in standard thriller territory and felt like a bit of a let-down for me. I did think the acting was very good though and the sense of place a strong point typical for these types of features. I could just have done with a little more meat to the mystery. Still, my criticisms are still only relative to the generally high quality of recent Scandinavian crime films overall, as this remains a pretty solid mystery-thriller nevertheless. Aside from the crime story, there are family and city versus small town complications added to the mix and which do expand the drama. Overall, I would classify this as a good film as opposed to being a great one though.

Jägarna 2 was shown as preview at Tampere, Finland this week. Preview was arranged as blind performance. No one in the audience knew what to expect.

The movie by Kjell Sundvall was completely success. The unusual kind of murder mystery surprised with its smooth and natural progress of storyline.

I was shocked by extremely magnificent actor work. Roles suited seamlessly.

To say something constructive I have to mention the use of extraordinary evil. After a set of plot twists killer's character has grown so abundantly wicked that it bugged me at the end of the film.

Not meant to say last, backgrounds of the film were also pleasant to watch. The Nordic nature is always good for the movie.

False Trail is named, and put under the heading, of a thriller. Because of the lack of actually thrilling thrillers, this title didn't mean much to me. But Kjell Sundvall's movie really does as it says on the tin.

In this Swedish sequel, we follow Erik Bäckström, an aging policeman called down to his old home town where a young woman has gone missing. Here we watch a murder case unfold, and are not only confronted with Erik's painful past, but are lead into a deeper, more sinister mystery than we initially imagined.

What first hits you about this movie is the dark, dense setting. Set in the picturesque woods of Norrland Sweden, you're struck by wintry lakes and friendly faces. In the beginning, the characters seem like boring, basically normal people. But when we delve into the mystery, and the first inklings of doubt and suspicion creep in, things begin to escalate, and our opinions change at every twist.

This movie really kept me alive and thinking. Its plot twists were calculated and realistic, and the acting was superb. Peter Stromare's character was fantastically played; everything we once thought we knew about him is warped and distorted until we see the character that he is. Through tongue-in-cheek gore and unprecedented acts of violence, this story will make you jump in your seat and question every motive.

Without giving too much away, notice Sundvall's directing; cutting into the truth like a fly on the wall, and letting the chaos run wild around him, until the characters realise the daunting reality just a step too late. Excellently done. In total, a well thought-through movie that did indeed thrill.