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I loved the book by Anne Holt and looked forward to
watch the serie version together with my wife.
In fact, since this was an adoption of just one of the many books with the main charecter, I hoped this would be the start on many seasons.
My hopes were high for this serie as I saw there were some good actors in it too, and the director had made good stuff earlier. But this production unfortunately just does not work well. For some reason, the indoor scenes gave me a made-for-TV feeling of a low budget soap opera production. I don't know if it was the camera/lens that was used, the color grading, camera angles, directions or a combination of it all. The acting and script also gave med soap opera feeling. Even from the good actors I respect. To the Norwegian readers, I can tell that it looked to me like they had used the exact same team as were making the soap opera "Hotel Ceasar".
But to be fair, my wife enjoyed the series, so if you can look beyond my objections, it may be worth while entertainment.
In fact, since this was an adoption of just one of the many books with the main charecter, I hoped this would be the start on many seasons.
My hopes were high for this serie as I saw there were some good actors in it too, and the director had made good stuff earlier. But this production unfortunately just does not work well. For some reason, the indoor scenes gave me a made-for-TV feeling of a low budget soap opera production. I don't know if it was the camera/lens that was used, the color grading, camera angles, directions or a combination of it all. The acting and script also gave med soap opera feeling. Even from the good actors I respect. To the Norwegian readers, I can tell that it looked to me like they had used the exact same team as were making the soap opera "Hotel Ceasar".
But to be fair, my wife enjoyed the series, so if you can look beyond my objections, it may be worth while entertainment.
This and the Kingsman are the two funniest spy movies I have seen the last decade. However, where the The Kingsman is an elegant over the top violent movie, the «Spy» is an elegant action spy movie with funny surprises where things goes wrong and the humor can be vulgar from time to time (plump), but done perfectly. Definetly NOT a family comedy to watch with the kids, but a GREAT laugh for grown ups. I have not laughed as much in years, and I am a person that not usually laughs of vulgarities. Jason Statham is fantastic in his role, making fun of his own film character he has build over the years. You will LOVE the film if you allow the crazyness to entertain you, and hate it if you can't accept profanities/sex jokes and expect a political correct movie.
You have to be on a bad acid trip in order to get anything good out of this crappy low budget movie.
How can anyone give it a high rating? After suffering through 2 hours totally waste of time, I understand why no one of those who gives it a high rating are able to come up with an actual review of it. It's the worst and most boring movie I have seen the last 10 years. DISSAPOINTING!