Varg Veum - Dødens drabanter

One of many small Norwegian islands. The postman is delivering packages. At one place he noticed door wide opened. As he knew the tenants, he came up to check the house. Inside he found two dead bodies. When he was moving back to the car, he was spotted by a boy, living in that house, holding a rifle. The postman managed to run away and notify the police. The boy, Jan Egil (Sturla Alvsvåg) told Hamre, that he will negotiate only with Varg Veum, otherwise he will kill his hostage, friend from school Silje (Dagny Backer Johnsen). Varg took care of young Jan Egil, when as a social worker decided to take the boy from his addicted to narcotics mother. Now, when boy is almost a man, in the whole investigation former Varg's co-workers are involved - Cecilie (Line Verndal) and Hans (Vegar Hoel).

Maybe in a general opinion this piece does not have the most sophisticated riddle, but it the nicest to watch (if you skip those few scenes, when Varg is alpha male). And Hamre is pretty friendly. And many bad people dies, which is usually a benefit.

So I gave the cliché that the book is much better. Well, it's true, although I only watched for 20 minutes.

The first thing we see of Veum is him waking up in the bed together with Aqua Lene. In the book he has a random one night stand with a woman and that's it. He did have a son from a stranded relationship, but that's beside the point. Varg Veum is much better as a lonely, borderline depressed detective.

Other than that the scene where Veum is called to the farm to talk to Jane boy who has entrenched himself in the woods is to me over acted and unbelievable and then a short while later Veum finds an empty can of contraband moonshine out in the woods near the farm, implying that there is more to this case than meets the eye. But come on, he just happens to trip over this can out in the bush? This is not at all how it happened in the book and that's ok, but the way they put in into the script is just lazy.

So this is when I turned the movie off and bought 5 used Veum books online.