What can i say about this movie? Well, to start off with, Dejan Cukic is a great actor, i can't believe why he isn't an Hollywood star !

The movie starts a little bit to 'fast', they don't give us to much information about the whole Tjetsjenia deal, but it's not to dangerous.

The guy who play "Thomas Fjell" must be the worst actor i've ever seen in my whole life, he barely can speak English and it sound's as if he is talking to an child when he talk to the terrorists.

BUT, it's not often you see this kind of film from Norway, so in one way i'm really impressed, all in all i give it 6/10

U cant compare this with great Hollywood titles though ...

Motivation does matter. Why does one act and behave a certain way? Why would they take hostages and kill people. On the other hand, it can be made look "easy" or not as deep or profound too. Or it can be a mixture of both. Question is how much you care about stuff like that? If you are interested in some neat and decent action set pieces, the movie does deliver on that end.

Even if it has to be said that this is nothing like a US blockbuster of course. Still there is drama and there is tension. A bit more character background on certain people would have helped, but then again it is the situation that this focuses on. For better or worse (no pun intended)

The movie does as usual not completely do the novel justice. But since the novel is about 400 pages, that's natural. The movie is good, and apart from a few small "mistakes" I really enjoyed it. The actors are doing a pretty good job, well most of the anyway. The scenery is well done, and the footage are good. I have notice that some Norwegian movie reviews have recommended people to not see this movie. That is pure bull. The movie is well worth seeing. I would say probably on the better Norwegian action/thrillers.

There are some parts of the novel that are completely missing in the movie, but since the novel writer and the screenplay writer is the same guy, the movie still works.