Leo

Swedish films usually are known to play it safe with the storyline, often mixing drama with psychology. This attempt on a thriller/drama,tries to examine the moral compass inside the protagonists. We learn about makes up the driving force leading up to a personal vendetta,including the clichéd stereotypical. There's the Yugoslavian gangsters with bad mouth, a psychologist asking dumb questions and the pizza-owner who has no influence over his son's actions. The violent anticlimax of "Leo" makes you wonder where all the creativity of the scriptwriting went. How this for a plot; Josef Fares would have played Leo and had to battle not just the loss of his girlfriend. Also there would be some racism of the Swedish gangsters, and at the same time be helped by his friends to understand morality and ethics. It could actually have been some trilling tension, when Leo with friends finally meet up with the antagonists in court...