WiseRatFlames An unexpected masterpiece

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

isabelcsilva This movie is very good, but I think it's a bit disgusting. The actors' work is fantastic. It shows us real problems like domestic and school violence. I always tried to find a way to defend the Ponti because I believed that what he did was to suffer at home. When he became vigilant, this task became much easier.

santiagocosme Ondskan is a great movie.I watched it in the original language subtitled, and still, within minutes I knew I would enjoy it. The protagonist is a young lost man who finds in fighting a way to express himself, upset by the things that happen in his life. He is sent to a Boarding school were the seniors humiliate the younger on a daily basis. But our protagonist will have none of it and stands up to them from day one. A battle of forces starts and continues, and we are left to see if the seniors will manage to break the spirit of their rebellious new companion. If it wasn't subtitled, I would re-watch it almost immediately. The point is, this was a good watch. I sincerely recommend it.

jjohnson2400 First off, I'm American and I have been watching some Scandinavian movies recently and I have to give two big thumbs up to the film makers from that part of the world. They have been making some amazingly powerful films.Let me also take a shot at Hollywood. I cannot even hardly watch a movie they make anymore. They are so sexually perverted or filled with wanton violence or just juvenile writing. It really is horrible. Most of the time I start watching American movies and I just turn them off.So there's my anti-Hollywood rant - now on to this movie.It is difficult to watch at times and I think the main character acted a lot better than I personally would. It is so aggravatingly painful how badly people can treat other people and this movie does not pull any punches in that regard.And still there is a certain sweetness to some of the relationships in this film - the kind you can now only see in foreign films and never from that cesspool Hollywood has become.So I highly recommend this film though be ready for a certain level of violence.This movie is well-written, well-acted. I think you'll like it.

hakan mild High school drama by famous Swedish hunter and outdoors-man Guillou. A Swedish Ernst Hemingway without the beard. Deals with delicate issues such as class differences and easy going mainlanders. Both common subject in the Swedish official sector. Guillous alter ego, Erik Ponti, sets out on a course thru troublesome waters when he is sent to a private school at an early age by his not so easy going abusing step dad (Superbly played by the star from "the sickness" Johan Rabeus). well there he gets in trouble with skitenhelm, an upper class disaster played by Stellan "skyscraper" Skarsgårds least successful and attractive son Gustav. He is unforgettable. He's struggle against the whole unjustable system gives him respect from his fellow classmates and specially from his roommate, the neurotic Frenchman, with limited social skills. Pontis awesome skills in the swimming pool (helped by likable social democrat Kjelle Bergkvist) becomes a thorn in skitenhjelms side. A typical Swedish drama that deals with personal vendettas more than widespread injustice. Thumbs down for Guillous fantasy biography!