ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Roedy Green Adam's Apples is an unusual film in that you instantly dislike all the characters. The Pastor of a church without a congregation is sanctimonious. Life has handed him a long series of cruelties, a father who repeatedly raped him, a wife who committed suicide, a catatonic son, a terminal brain tumour, workers who beat him up. He deals with all this with exaggerated Christian denial. He insists his child runs around and does his homework. He insists nothing bad has ever happened. He lies to a women with a foetus likely to be disabled, using his own "happy" experience.This denial drives his skinhead Nazi worker crazy. Another worker shoots people on whim. Another is grossly obese, a pervert, and a kleptomaniac.Then the magic "glorious messenger" highly improbable happy ending made possible by divine intervention. The message is creepy and disgusting, that somehow god exists and despite everything, is perfect, despite his sadistic tinkering. The crazy pastor was right all along.It contains scenes of crow and cat killing.It is original and fascinating in a car wreck sort of way.

beesofia I honestly haven't seen a movie like this before...quirky, dark, moody and sometimes violent...Adam's Apples had me tied in knots by the end of the movie! What I am discovering about Danish film is that you actually get to know all of the characters and their quirks...then, most of the story evolves around how the individual characters interact with each other.Strange as it may seem, I could relate to each and every character and how they dealt with what life threw at them...even the doctor was weird but interesting.I can't express enough how fantastic this movie is...if you are curious about Danish Film...watch this first!

themkody *CORRECTION* This film alone makes me proud of being a Dane. It is a film some viewers may never be able to fully appreciate unless they speak danish fluently. But if you enjoyed "After the Wedding" and enjoyed Mads Mikkelsen's performance just as much as I did, Adam's Apples is a movie you must watch. The black humour and emotional depth in this film is nothing short of phenomenal. It has the black humour of Pulp Fiction, and the emotional depth of The Shawshank Redemption. This might sound like a stupid idea, and I've seen films that screw it up, but Adam's Apples pulls it off. Although it's underlying themes are biblical, there are actually a lot of biblical undertones, the film doesn't force you to have any kind of religion; you can watch the movie just for the sake of the humour, skillful direction, acting, writing and emotional depth. But it's fun analyzing this film, comparing the characters to biblical characters (even though I'm an atheist).This is a true danish masterpiece - Moose finds this film worthy of a 10.

stalker1994 Having known next to nothing about Danish cinema (except for Lars von Trier, perhaps), the film took me by surprise. I spent an agitated 90 minutes laughing my head off and silently praying, 'oh please, don't make this into an educational film, pretty please with sugar on top...' Given the plot outline, it was not difficult to imagine a 'bad guy turned into a good guy' storyline that allows us to shed the two tears Kundera described in his account of kitsch. However, think twice with the likes of Anders Thomas Jensen. The taciturn neo-Nazi, Adam, scheduled for community service at a parish in the middle of nowhere, enters a bizarre world of deranged minds, malicious birds and human beings who just wouldn't die. At the outset, one may read the characters as a company of outcasts - a priest who has conditioned himself to block out negative aspects of reality, a tennis prodigy turned kleptomaniac, a seemingly incontinent ex-Nazi, a robber harboring the fallacy of taking money from multinational corporations by means of robbing Statoil gas stations, a woman pregnant with a retarded baby - they all seem to inhabit the fictional space of the film because they might find it difficult to function within the human society (a theme portrayed, in a less subtle way, in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest). However, we are constantly reminded that what unfolds before us is not a realist narrative. Be it the neo-Nazi who walks grumpily away, being shot twice through the chest, the phlegmatic, malicious birds who decide to plague the apple tree, the Bible that always opens on the same page (uhm...some books actually tend to do that) or the priest who survives a shot through the head - these and other unreal occurrences provide for a genre shift. Together with a series of bizarre situations, all portrayed as relatively mundane happenings, the film creates an atmosphere quite akin to the books of the great magical realist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. As the story becomes liberated from the constraints of realist narratives, we as viewers are allowed to laugh in a light-hearted way. We are no longer watching a realist odyssey (and, consequently, there is no such catharsis as for instance with Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark); rather than that, the film provides an opaque screen where we project our own emotions. Since the movie presents bizarre or unreal occurrences in a matter-of-fact way, one finds it difficult to ascribe a clear, definite meaning to them. One is thus forced to create one's own meaning, or abolish the idea of 'meaning' altogether (as it often happens with magical realist texts). Some reviewers admit feeling guilty while laughing in the course of the film. My laughter, on the other hand, was liberating and quite unstoppable. The movie is a magical realist take on the Book of Job - and a hilarious one, at that.