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

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

The first must-see film of the year.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Kind of authentic environment in this movie, like taken from reality. Bjørn Floberg is just raw power as the gangster boss. The last 20 minutes are hot suspense, if you can handle something quite special other than typical Hollywood.Uro means "unrestfulness" and on the cover photo is Uropolitiet = the riot Police.

I recently saw this at the 2007 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The story is by Harald Rosenløw-Eeg who previously wrote the internationally popular film Hawaii, Oslo. This crime drama out of Norway is about a rouge undercover cop comes from a home who's mother is an alcoholic and father has committed suicide but with determination to make something out of himself he has recently graduated from the police academy and has gone into the URO narcotics unit as a rookie working undercover. His failure to follow rules of procedure and his aggressive tactics bring him scorn and punishment from within his department. He also finds himself in the drug dealing underworld of a friend he's known since childhood. It's a good premise for a crime drama and the story moves along well with interesting characters but it's a little far-fetched and simplistic too. Nicolai Cleve Broch stars. A fairly impressive debut feature film by it's director Stefan Faldbakken. It's worth checking out and I would give it a 7.5 out of 10.

With such a strong movie with this kind of a powerful cast and story, it's hard to believe the very mixed reviews and the misleading points given so far at IMDb.I truly believe that this is one of the strongest Norwegian movies in years, following other great movies of 2006 with ease. It's not a noisy kind of cop movie, but a movie that's about the choices we are given in life and whether they are choices or not. Can you escape your past and your family's legacy? Nicolai Cleve Broch are both strong and fragile in a very low key way, and the troubled Ane Dahl Torp finally shows why she became a shooting star last year. Bjørn Floberg are as terrifying as ever, and Ingar Håkon Gimle once again shows his versatility.You can't miss this one.

Uro is the story of the police officer Hans Petter (HP), who is both troubled by his past and overeager to "do the right thing". HP soon finds himself in a world of trouble as he goes to far to make a bust on a local drug-lord.HP's troubled background consists of the typical "alcoholic mother,absent father" setting, and HP himself is regarded as a troublemaker by people who knew him when he was young. The only "bad" thing we get to know about HP is that he punched one of his teachers in the face and then took off to another town. And in this lays some of the problem with the film. Although the movie tries to portray HP as a troublemaker who ignores the rules and his comrades because he believes it's the right thing to do, it only makes him look like part party-boy,part emo-kid. It also makes him look incredible stupid since he'd probably get permission to do what he's doing IF he'd told his superiors, and makes us wonder how he could ever get into the police academy (the real one, not the movie one).The other problems is that the scenes never take this movie to the next level. The sad parts aren't really that sad, the gritty part's aren't that gritty and the funny parts.. well, there aren't really any funny parts. It might have saved the film if HP had walloped in sin and drugs. He takes a few shots of cocaine and have sex with the drug lords drug addicted daughter, but that's about it. The movie tries to be black and grim but ends up gray and flat.The paradox of the movie is that the acting is pretty good, but the film is not. Nicolai Cleve Broch makes a good effort with HP's limited character and both Ane Dahl Torp and Ahmed Zeyan does solid performances. The best portrayed character is by Ingar Helge Gimle as "Makker", HP's boss. Whereas HP is gray and lifeless, Makker is full of emotion and life. You can really feel his frustration when HP doesn't follow his plan for him.To sum this up I say good acting, poor camera and scriptwriting. A total of 5 out of 10 stars.