Please don't spend money on this.

Excellent but underrated film

Don't listen to the negative reviews

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I had no opportunity to watch English version,but judging by the choice of the main actor I believe that it is very good. I was lucky to have chance to follow Swedish show in which Detective, Kurt Wallander resolve cases more by his heart and by his deep understanding of human nature than by the contribution of forensics and technology. Wallander is not only Detective, he is lone Intellectual who lives in the house on the beach, entoured by books and classic music records, devoted to the goal to find and maintain the fine line between Good and Bed,Lie and Truth, before everyone, in himself. That's why he goes up to the discovering of deepest motif of each case , realizing sometimes, grace to his deep understanding of the human soul and grace to his moral sense that the murderer is often a victim.He, himself is not perfect , he often makes errors in social connections, but he knows that making mistakes is inevitable part of the human soul and he completely undertakes consequences of his acts, not avoiding the suffering and the sadness. The show is colored by the "noire" atmosphere given by the scenery of empty beaches, tiny interiors, obscure lightening, the threatening waves of magic Baltic Sea that all serve to support the sense of everywhere present possible tragedy, inevitable due to imperfection of divided human nature. As for acting, the main Actor,can not be anymore distinguished from his Role in the Show that is the ultimate level of ingenious acting. The only remarks that I have are unnecessary copying of some of famous iconography of CSI Miami that can be recognized from the second season, that lowers my opinion from perfect to "close to perfection." Except for this, the show took my all heart and my soul.

First of all, greetings from Finland, Kurt Wallander! I usually do not watch a lot film series, but this is just so much different. Better. Much better than ANY other detective series out there. Right now one of our TV-channels are presenting a Wallander movie on Saturdays every week! I'm always eagerly waiting another one and it's easily a highlight of my whole week/weekend at the moment! Krtister Henriksson is the main reason. Absolutely fantastic actor. He really may be the most memorable and impressive character which I've ever seen. He's calm and clever. I have always good feeling when I watch him playing the role of Kurt Wallander. It's.. Almost like a magic.Of course the script and screenplay is also very important factor in detective stories. Of course there's couple things here and there which are just slightly impractical or clichés but that actually hasn't never bothered me.Conclusion; After every movie, I'm happy. And when Wallander usually just walks away at the end of the movie and music starts playing, I feel great, I smile and get shivers. What could be better feeling after watching a movie? I'm absolutely loving these movies. Krister Henriksson, thank you for being Kurt Wallander for all these years. Golden times that we will never forget.

I would do 10 but I heard IMDb would invalidate the lowest and highest rating. I lived in Sweden for almost a year so many of the Sweden landscape and atmosphere is coming back to me viscerally. I tried to watch the BBC version which is astounding but nothing like how Swedes do it.They have so much micro expressions and knowing how Scandinavians are, I really enjoy this series deeply. I understand some phrases and the translation is pretty good. Of course Swedes speak really good English so I think the subtitles captured it pretty well. The Swedish Wallander actor has a lot of depth and Kenneth Branagh in the BBC version is no slouch. One thing about this series is that one episode is a complete story at least as far as the case is concerned. However the backdrop of the relationships will only be understood if you watch an entire season. Netflix does not have the 1st series so I will probably buy it on Amazon. I will also hunt for the book/s.I love classic Swedish films but the new ones are also as classy. I am even surprised how good their television is as well. As long as you are willing to read the subtitles and research the Swedish culture a bit, you are in for a treat.

Welcome to a small, but crime-ridden city of Ystad. You can die of knives, firearms, bombs, occasionally a heart attack. While it is difficult to survive for ordinary people, one groups is especially endangered: being Wallander's friend, school colleague, especially former girlfriend is almost certain death sentence.It will not take more than a couple of seasons to make sure that hardly any Ystad citizen survives. On the optimistic side the neighboring bridge to Denmark and the ferry connection to Poland will ensure sufficient influx of criminals, so the series can continue.Overall, I liked the series very much. The only thing that bothered me a bit is personal involvement of all young police officers (Linda, Stefan, Pontus, Isabel). Hey, Mr. Kurt (and creators of the series) - young people can be professional too, and not necessary former friends of criminals (at least that's what I remember from long time ago).