Vilsen

WHO gave this guy pass from film making school?? Utter rubbish.

Gave it two start for shots of Gothenburg the rest - plot, actors, fights, editing utter cr@p.

This Swedish film is set in the city of Gothenburg and opens with the discovery of a woman's body. She is found lying face-down with a symbol carved in her back; hers isn't the first body to be found in such a way. The police, led by Göran Lidman, have no real leads to go on. Former pastor Gabriella offers to help... she tells them the killings are the work of a cult called 'The Sons of God'. There are more deaths and Göran, Gabriella and those around them will face severe dangers before the cult attempts to carry out its awaited ritual on the day of a solar eclipse.

For the most part I rather enjoyed this film. It started off as a normal, if somewhat gory, murder mystery. For most of the film it was unclear whether the cult was a group of religiously deluded individuals or whether their evil, supernatural activities could ultimately succeed. This meant that until the denouement we have the usual sight of investigators following clues, meeting potential witnesses and comparing the events to a possibly linked crime spree in Finland. The ending is fairly shocking but ultimately a little disappointing. The acting is pretty solid and the effects are decent enough. Overall a decent enough mystery/horror; not really a must see but neither is it something to be avoided.

These comments are based on watching the film in Swedish with English subtitles.

Incoherent plot, fight scenes coordinated by a sock puppet, more Scandi blah than Scandi noir it makes channel five hallmark crap look like die hard, don't watch it it's mince.

I got tired of watching terrible American and British (and Irish) horror flicks and thought I'd try some Scandinavian entries; surely countries that gave us writers like Ibsen and Strindberg, and masters of form like Bergman would have something wonderful (or at least good) to offer. Boy was I mistaken. The principle actor has all the charm of a motel room, the story is both boring and even incoherent, and the length of this non-masterpiece makes watching it drudgery. If you value your time, do not waste it on this flick..

Self isolating with COVID19 means I've got a lot of time on my hands, hence watching this nonsense. I knew after 10 minutes that it wasn't very good and it got progressively worse. The fight scenes in particular were laughable, and as for the final climax, well I laughed out loud even harder.