As Good As It Gets

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Based on a good detective story (1963) by writer Kerstin Ekman, sensitively retold by Frykberg and Alfredson, combined with great music by the Flesh Quartet (aka Fläskkvartetten) and brilliant acting performances by several well-known Swedish actors, this is a first-rate movie with genuine provincial atmosphere and scenery of elk-hunting season. You should also be aware that most countryside folks in Sweden tend to distinguish between those who get to participate in the hunt and those who don't, and autumn is divided in two before and after this most important event of the year. You never know when the bell tolls the hour for you, until it happens.

Dödsklockan is an enjoyable thriller for those who understand Swedish. It is actually quite similar to Jägarna, but with less violence (which I think is a good thing) and a more convincing plot. I would like to add to the first review, that in addition to Loa and Keve, Anders Ekborg is also very good in Dödsklockan.

A traffic-accident is the startup for this thriller about blackmail and hunting in a rural community in the 1960s. It's a pleasure to see a number of the best Swedish actors at present together in such an enjoyable thriller. Keve Hjelm and Loa Falkman stands out as the best of the best.