Ali (Leon Bashir), Nico (Anders Danielsen Lie, recently known for his role in 'Oslo., 31. August') and Bobby (Farrakh Abbas) are three extremely incompetent criminals heading for "the top"!
They try to figure out how to stage "the perfect crime" (haven't we all?) but all of a sudden the chance seem to be there, as 'The Dane' ("Dansken") (Kim Bodnia, of course!) contacts them as he wants them to steal a stuffed falcon!? That must be easy, n'est-ce pas?
Of course they make a mess out of everything and all of a sudden the falcon is gone, implying that they own "The Dane" half a million Danish kr. Now they've got a problem.
Nico seems to have a solution though. He has a relative who has made a fortune on illicit distilling and with his help they will get the money they owe their "employer". The only thing they need is 400 kg of sugar!! How to get hold of 400 kg of sugar? Buy it? Not so easy but steal it from a truck supplying the stores is possible - or is it?
Another group of failed criminals (actors Tommy Wirkola, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel and Bjørn Sundquist among others) unknowingly of the others intervene, hijacking the very same truck.
At the same time a drug addict - 'Finish' (Kristoffer Joner) - gets hold of the falcon, not knowing that it's a much more important item than just a conversational partner, as he is using it for!
On the whole it's a rather amusing film with some weird individuals, doing weird things in a weird world. This is of course not innovative per se, as we live in a weird world, full of weird individuals, doing weird things but this is these individuals and their twist on weirdness.
Of course we see Kim Bodnia and Slavko Lavobic again in the roles as tough and merciless criminals as in the 'Pusher'-movies and even if they are clichés of themselves they are two quite entertaining clichés. On the other hand, I very much like Kim Bodnia as an actor, having seen him in many other roles and he has a multitude of expressions, not only the 'stone face', ironically-laughing-attitude.
In this film one have gathered a lot of actors used to play somewhat 'unusual' characters, to say the least and as such - not least when knowing their different previous achievements - we found this film worth seeing.
They try to figure out how to stage "the perfect crime" (haven't we all?) but all of a sudden the chance seem to be there, as 'The Dane' ("Dansken") (Kim Bodnia, of course!) contacts them as he wants them to steal a stuffed falcon!? That must be easy, n'est-ce pas?Of course they make a mess out of everything and all of a sudden the falcon is gone, implying that they own "The Dane" half a million Danish kr. Now they've got a problem.
Nico seems to have a solution though. He has a relative who has made a fortune on illicit distilling and with his help they will get the money they owe their "employer". The only thing they need is 400 kg of sugar!! How to get hold of 400 kg of sugar? Buy it? Not so easy but steal it from a truck supplying the stores is possible - or is it?
Another group of failed criminals (actors Tommy Wirkola, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel and Bjørn Sundquist among others) unknowingly of the others intervene, hijacking the very same truck.At the same time a drug addict - 'Finish' (Kristoffer Joner) - gets hold of the falcon, not knowing that it's a much more important item than just a conversational partner, as he is using it for!
On the whole it's a rather amusing film with some weird individuals, doing weird things in a weird world. This is of course not innovative per se, as we live in a weird world, full of weird individuals, doing weird things but this is these individuals and their twist on weirdness.Of course we see Kim Bodnia and Slavko Lavobic again in the roles as tough and merciless criminals as in the 'Pusher'-movies and even if they are clichés of themselves they are two quite entertaining clichés. On the other hand, I very much like Kim Bodnia as an actor, having seen him in many other roles and he has a multitude of expressions, not only the 'stone face', ironically-laughing-attitude.
In this film one have gathered a lot of actors used to play somewhat 'unusual' characters, to say the least and as such - not least when knowing their different previous achievements - we found this film worth seeing.(First poster copied from: http://vestfoldgirl.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/tommetc3b8nner.jpg)
(Second poster copied from: http://img.filmfront.no/pictures/release/large/125780922322.jpg)
(Photo 'Ali'/Leon Bashir copied from: http://montages.no/files/2009/11/Tomme-t%C3%B8nner.jpg)
(Photo 'three criminals'/Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel, Tommy Wirkola http://www.filmweb.no/bilder/multimedia/archive/00148/Tynn-Svein__Stig_Fr_148093s.jpg)
(Photo Kim Bodnia, Slavko Ladovic copied from: http://www.joe.no/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/mafia_kim-og-slavko.jpg)
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