Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Absolutely Fantastic

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Mix a Neo Nazi in "recovery", a country priest fighting Satan, a religious terrorist out his country of approved homophobic origins, an obese recovering alcoholic, a medical doctor all snarky science and bellicose cruelty, and a pregnant woman who may be giving birth to a genetically "problematic" child and what do you get: ADAMS APPLES. Every single person in the film is confronting a force field of GOOD vs EVIL from their own point of view, as black comedy. There's the apple tree from Eden's garden filled with worms, fire, lightening, destruction and an apple pie. If only Adam the Neo Nazi can complete his task of recovery and make one. I laughed out loud so many times wondering how these actors could deliver their lines deadpan!! It was like being in an AA meeting with the Borgia. But the biggest surprise of the whole story, amongst many, is that Adam, the Neo Nazi, begins to look like the most sane person in the group. The film is ripped from todays headlines but was made in 2005. Make it a companion piece to "Dogville" to get the down home version of the same issues, or "The Northerners" to get the Dutch version.I give it my highest rating for satire in an age that has lost the ability to appreciate the tongue in cheek, cheek of it all. Aren't you glad we're just film fanatics, instead of any of the other life forms now growing on the planet. Be proud of yourself be very, very proud.

Adam's Apples is an unusual film in that you instantly dislike all the characters. The Pastor of a church without a congregation is sanctimonious. Life has handed him a long series of cruelties, a father who repeatedly raped him, a wife who committed suicide, a catatonic son, a terminal brain tumour, workers who beat him up. He deals with all this with exaggerated Christian denial. He insists his child runs around and does his homework. He insists nothing bad has ever happened. He lies to a women with a foetus likely to be disabled, using his own "happy" experience.This denial drives his skinhead Nazi worker crazy. Another worker shoots people on whim. Another is grossly obese, a pervert, and a kleptomaniac.Then the magic "glorious messenger" highly improbable happy ending made possible by divine intervention. The message is creepy and disgusting, that somehow god exists and despite everything, is perfect, despite his sadistic tinkering. The crazy pastor was right all along.It contains scenes of crow and cat killing.It is original and fascinating in a car wreck sort of way.

it is comedy. but its root id deep and bitter. it is a moral lesson but in a special form. it is version of Job story but the details and the way to say it is almost unique. it is picture of new Raskolnikov adventure but the character is not exactly Dostoyevski product. touching, delicate, strong. a kind of poem, half-kind of fairy-tall, the Adam apples is demonstration of inspired acting. sure, Mads Mikkelson is not a surprise, but the nuances of measure, the wise science to transform each detail of priest character is impressive. and Ulrich Thomsen gives a great testimony about fight of evil. it is a very good film because it is out of ordinaries traps. not sentimental , cruel but nice, religious but page of humanist message, delicate but precise, game of delicate problems but bright. realistic but poetic. a really interesting work. and exercise for respect of measure in a special subject case.

Having known next to nothing about Danish cinema (except for Lars von Trier, perhaps), the film took me by surprise. I spent an agitated 90 minutes laughing my head off and silently praying, 'oh please, don't make this into an educational film, pretty please with sugar on top...' Given the plot outline, it was not difficult to imagine a 'bad guy turned into a good guy' storyline that allows us to shed the two tears Kundera described in his account of kitsch. However, think twice with the likes of Anders Thomas Jensen. The taciturn neo-Nazi, Adam, scheduled for community service at a parish in the middle of nowhere, enters a bizarre world of deranged minds, malicious birds and human beings who just wouldn't die. At the outset, one may read the characters as a company of outcasts - a priest who has conditioned himself to block out negative aspects of reality, a tennis prodigy turned kleptomaniac, a seemingly incontinent ex-Nazi, a robber harboring the fallacy of taking money from multinational corporations by means of robbing Statoil gas stations, a woman pregnant with a retarded baby - they all seem to inhabit the fictional space of the film because they might find it difficult to function within the human society (a theme portrayed, in a less subtle way, in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest). However, we are constantly reminded that what unfolds before us is not a realist narrative. Be it the neo-Nazi who walks grumpily away, being shot twice through the chest, the phlegmatic, malicious birds who decide to plague the apple tree, the Bible that always opens on the same page (uhm...some books actually tend to do that) or the priest who survives a shot through the head - these and other unreal occurrences provide for a genre shift. Together with a series of bizarre situations, all portrayed as relatively mundane happenings, the film creates an atmosphere quite akin to the books of the great magical realist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. As the story becomes liberated from the constraints of realist narratives, we as viewers are allowed to laugh in a light-hearted way. We are no longer watching a realist odyssey (and, consequently, there is no such catharsis as for instance with Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark); rather than that, the film provides an opaque screen where we project our own emotions. Since the movie presents bizarre or unreal occurrences in a matter-of-fact way, one finds it difficult to ascribe a clear, definite meaning to them. One is thus forced to create one's own meaning, or abolish the idea of 'meaning' altogether (as it often happens with magical realist texts). Some reviewers admit feeling guilty while laughing in the course of the film. My laughter, on the other hand, was liberating and quite unstoppable. The movie is a magical realist take on the Book of Job - and a hilarious one, at that.