Reviews

The brilliance behind this is astonishing! When you keep in mind the fact that the most intelligent of characters and the cleverest of plots are not above those creating them, you can really appreciate genius. And this is it. Two perfect robbery plans nearly perfectly executed. The stories, however, are perfect. The characters in this are very reaslistic. His crew of mishaps is the only variable the Professor cannot perfectly control and thus is the only weakness of his plans. Well, his second plan was not as perfect as the first one, in the sense he had not foreseen all the moves of his opponents, which were cleverer than before, but he still managed to show the genius worthy of a world-class chess player.

Definitely recommend!

Will be watching it again and again for many years.

Excellent film! On se rappelle que c'est un film français les gens? C'est pas Hollywood qui a fait ça! Moi je veux voir une suite à ce film de super-héros moderne!

What's wrong with people? This is an excellent movie! Keep in mind that it wasn't made in Hollywood... I want to see a sequel to this gem of a modern superhero movie!

Sadly, I must agree with the negative reviews on this one. I really liked the premiss and the first half of the movie, but you don't get satisfied by the end of the movie. As others have said, great visuals, but not much explanation. Because of the latter, I don't advise watching it.

It was watchable and intriguing, but overall disappointing. I loved Resolution and the Endless, the latter being my favorite, but not this one. It just sucked honestly. I watched it until the end because I wanted to give a chance, but the first half is slow, you don't get attached to the characters, and, the ending was so so. The second half was better, but they should have explored that more in depth and used a bigger portion of it for the whole movie.

The title says it all. I like Bill Murray, but boy did they go too far on this one! At least try to make me believe it's possible! No one is as clueless as Wallace in real life, let alone his level of "clumsy luck".

Honestly not as bad as I read here. It's not as good as the first, but it was a good movie. Only two movies (trilogies, in fact) received a ten stars from me: the matrix and the lord of the rings. I only give a 9 if it's a really good movie. 7 or 8 is a pretty good movie that I would watch again.

I really don't see what was so problematic here... Seems like a standard hero/fantasy movie. I don't usually like DC movies, but both Wonder Woman worked for me.

Now, on the thinking side, some people have pointed out what might be considered as flaws, and I'll grant some of them, but it was still an enjoyable movie. I've seen worse.

Some flaws mentioned by others: limitations in technology not being realistically respected (at the end), Diana's powers conveniently "expanding" to suit the needs of the moment, and the ending's resolution being a bit too easy. The first and last critiques have some merit. To the extent of ruining the film? I don't think so. I also thought the characters made sense. One might object that they (villains in particular) were more archetypal than real people, but this is based on comics and there is an explanation for their psychological evolution, if you follow the rules and backgrounds the movie presents to us.

I recommend watching it for yourself and making up your own mind.

Okay, so there are a lot of mixed reviews here! Sometimes I trust them and others I don't. I had already seen this as a teen, and wanted to see it again and see if I'd still like it. I thought it was very good and to me different than other movies, given the protagonists are "cavemen", or "mountainmen" in this case. Some here say there was nothing new in this movie, well we don't watch the same movies then... I mean, your common archetypes are there but this takes place in the ancient/prehistoric world. Now, for those crying about historical inaccuracies... You do are aware that this is a *movie *, right? Not a documentary... Have you never heard you must suspend disbelief? The story is consistent in what it tells, that's all that matters. It creates a world and presents it to you. When a movie contradicts its own rules, that's when it fails.

Someone here said the part where they need to find the head of the snake (symbols, so not spoilers), why did they not just follow the snake instead of the way they chose? Well, they say it in the movie my man, it's a shortcut! They didn't have the means to follow the snake...

To me this was a different movie, with the mountainmen's and others' spiritualities and yet also the challenging of superstitions, the presentation of different cultures, all the interesting fighting and action scenes; honestly I thought it was great! There also are some breathtaking landscapes in this film. I liked it even more as an adult than as a teen. I also thought the sage's narrating created a nice atmosphere consistent with the movie's themes.

Then again, everyone must make their own minds.

I was a little scared by the negative comments, but having seen the trailer and very much liking the premiss, I decided to watch it anyways and see for myself. It's not the best movie I ever watched, but it was well made and you get surprised. There are mysteries and clues and I'm glad to have guessed it right before it was revealed. Nicely done. The story keeps you entertained throughout. In other words, the movie succeeded in its task. I learned from this experience that I better follow my gut rather than other people's opinions, at least some times.

Also, the story stays well in touch with the rules of the world it presents, in a realistic fashion, which is very good, considering there are many movies who fail miserably at this.

This is the first political show I actually enjoyed. I watched Designated Survivor, but in the middle of season two or at the end of it, I lost interest. One thing about Okkupert is that it doesn't drag the story indefinitely. In real life, politics and conflict never end. The fact that it's Norwegian is new and exotic and I liked it a lot. You always wonder what will happen next and who will win. The decisions and characters also very much resembled real life people and what they would do in such situations. I recommend this show.







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I personally didn't like how the characters' moral compass seemed to disintegrate during the show, but it nevertheless seemed very realistic, unfortunately. At some point, you may wonder who is the good guy or the bad guy, or if there even are such things. Although Fritt Norge used violence and deception, I found myself wishing for their "team" to win. They were the only ones really trying to free Norway. Collaborating with the Russians only ensured they would stay longer, since it was obvious they were there to stay and probably would annex Norway someday. Evidence for this: the many illegal immigrants, most of them undercover russian agents.

It seems to me the best thing to avoid all this mess would have been for Jesper to destroy the gas and oil installations in the ocean right after learning of the EU's plot to take over. "We said we close our facilities and that's the end of it, no one will make us produce something we don't want to". That's my thinking. But then again... Would they have changed their mind or retaliated? Notwithstanding, it would have taken away the one thing they were there for. Norway did warn them for years that they would close their facilities and they did have an alternative source of energy : thorium plants.

It's sad that in the end everyone used blackmailing, theft, murder, adultery, and lying to get what they want. That was kind of depressing. I hope it's not like that in real life! They also seemed to want kill everyone in the show at the end (for realistic reasons though). Thankfully, Norway was free again. Kind of. Not really...

The last message of the show from Jesper: wanna make the world clean? Make it clean yourself! Don't wait for others!