Lack of good storyline.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Allan is about to celebrate his hundredth birthday. But it is not shaping up to be any good compared to his eventful life, so he decides to escape from his retirement home. Coincidentally he ends up spoiling a mobster plot and soon everyone is looking for him. Along the way he reminisces about how he, just as coincidentally, has affected world events in the last century.Allan's approach is a very stoic one. Threatened at gunpoint or conversing with world leaders, he stays completely calm. And around him things just happen. This leads to numerous comic situations, and the movie is quite enjoyable. Not at all afflicted with the disease many Swedish comedies that seem to confuse comedy with embarrassment. There are few moments that had me laughing out loud, but it is subtly and cunningly entertaining through out the entire movie.The characters are quirky and well portrayed. In conclusion, it is likable and I recommend it.7/10

Allan Karlsson would not be a fan of simile, metaphor, or flowery comparisons of any sort; he's much more of a "things are how they are, que sera sera" kind of guy. So he might issue one of his patented crinkly grimaces to hear his film, The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (a title as cutely apt, lumbering, but functional as the film itself), allegorized as 'Forrest Gump through the eyes of a Swedish Kurt Vonnegut'. Still, it's impossible to imagine a more conducive description for the film. It's cute, clever, and laced with a very welcome sense of dark Swedish humour, but a bit too light and gentle to dig into the weightier, more Vonnegutian themes of other aging road trip contemporaries. Does this impact our enjoyment of the film? Not at all. It is what it is, and what it is is worthwhile and hugely watchable.The plot is rather episodic, with the series of accidentally poignant flashbacks integrated amusingly but playing out more clumsily here than in book form. Ultimately, it's hard to shake the feeling that we might be better off forgoing Karlsson's colourful past altogether. His present-day caper, an almost Coen brothers-y road trip involving a mysterious bag of mob cash, an entourage of quirky companions, and an ever mounting, morbidly hilarious body count, is so much more watchable than the amusing but more contrived Gumpiness of his reminiscences. Still, Karlsson's amiable, nonchalant acceptance of all things that pass - political regimes, life, loss, Gulags, drinking, doppelgängers, xenophobic vasectomies, unexpected elephants, and lots and lots of explosions - is infectious, and perfectly portrayed with crusty warmth by (48 year old!) star Robert Gustafsson, aided by some pretty impressive makeup. He's an engaging enough narrator that all events, revolutionary (literally) and inconsequential, add flavour to his characterization and film alike.As with all 100 year-old things there are growing pains. The film fights somewhat distractingly hard to play as a comedy sometimes, none the least through its carnivalesque, Nino Rota ripoff musical score, and the ending's cloying schmaltziness won't be to all tastes (though it's hard to find fault with any film that brings us to a Balinese beach vacation). Nonetheless, just as the film urges for nonjudgmental acceptance and enjoyment of everything that drifts on by, it dictates its own ideal viewing state. And as a night's hearty entertainment, untaxing but seasoned with just enough discerning weirdness, The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared could prove the perfect fit. So it goes.-7/10

I heard that the book behind this was really something different, told in a great way and really captured the reader with crazy tales, so I was hoping that the film would be a great experience, even though I had not read the book.This is great, really funny and different, he has really lived life to the fullest and experienced great things :) and he still is through out this film. It is a kind of Forest Gump film, but with a Scandinavian twist and humor, it works out really well and Allan is like Forest in many ways, he is telling his story as he experienced it, it is ordinary and quite simple to him, but it is spectacular for us as the viewer and strange in some ways and deliberately or not funny.You should watch it, it is really fun.

I've seen some wacky comedies but few like Felix Herngren's "Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann" ("The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" in English). I didn't know that this movie was based on a book, but I'd say that you don't have to have read the book to find the movie hilarious. Like "Forrest Gump" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" it incorporates real events into its fictional story. I guess that one could say that the movie reminds us that age is just a number that we apply to ourselves, because you've never had a series of experiences like this centenarian has! I have no doubt that you'll enjoy the movie. It goes to show that, yes, the Scandinavians CAN be funny.PS: Alan Ford is best known for roles in Guy Ritchie movies, but also appeared in "An American Werewolf in London" and "Chaplin".