Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

s_imdb-176 I have recently read Solstorm, the Asa Larsson book from which this film was derived, and was curious to see it adaptation : let's just say that, if you have read the book, you will probably be disappointed.I didn't expect very high production values - and thus wasn't disappointed : most of the sets look cheap, the images and sounds weren't that great either and the cast doesn't redeem the whole.The main character, Rebecka Martinsson, is played by an actress who just is too old for the role and whose range of acting is about 3 expressions-wide. Also, a special mention goes to the lifeless blonde slug playing the born- again-evangelic-freak victim : how on earth are we supposed to believe that this (supposedly) extraordinarily charismatic religious leader single-handedly brought a religious revival in Kiruna, drawing hordes of believers ?In the end, what really irked me was that the story was so botched that the plot was full of holes, and so watered down that what remained was nowhere as intense as the book, especially the laughable finale (I mean, Curt shows up unexpected at the hunting retreat and Rebecka, who is basically on the run, just offers him some coffee ?)In short, not a good film, no good acting and a pitiful scenario. I really hope that someday someone will realize that the Asa Larsson books are just begging to be adapted, "the killing" style, but please ! If it has to be the same team, I'd rather have them stay just books !!

BOUF A beautiful-looking film set in an icy Scandinavian backwater, where most of the men are evil, or weak, and most of the women are good (as in a lot of contemporary Swedish drama.) The lead character (Izabela Scorupco) is a beautiful young tax lawyer, determined to protect her best friend, who's been accused of murder. Scorupco faces the usual steely-eyed religious bigots, and has to untangle familiar murky secrets, but the plot has some good twists, which are parcelled out in a well paced and-structured way. Ms Scorupco is a bit one note, but she's competent. More interesting is the local detective..she's like someone you might meet in a small town, heavily pregnant, and quietly pragmatic. The solution to most of these murder mysteries seems to be always slightly depressing - destruction seems to be the only recourse of those who try to end their own or someone else's misery. You can't make fritatas without breaking eggs, I suppose.

Claudio Carvalho While in a party promoted by her chief and friend Måns Wenngren (Jakob Eklund), the fiscal attorney Rebecka Martinsson (Izabella Scorupco) receives a call from her former sister-in-law Sanna Strandgård (Maria Sundbom) telling that her brother and preacher Viktor (André Sjöberg) was murdered, stabbed and with severed hands, and she would be arrested. Rebecka heads to her hometown Kiruna and defends Sanna, but the evidences found by the police in her house prove her guilty and she is arrested. While investigating the crime, Rebecka is haunted by her past and faces the bigoted and fanatic religious dwellers that worship the local church, and is more convinced of the innocence of Sanna."Solstorm" is a weird, but good thriller with great performances, highlighting the gorgeous Izabella Scorupco, and awesome locations and cinematography in Kiruna (Northern Sami: Giron), the northernmost city in Sweden, situated in Lappland province, that makes the viewer feel cold, no matter where he is. The non-linear screenplay is a little confused but never uses clichés; is very tense and uncomfortable and has an unexpected plot point in the end. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): Not Available

fred-83 I was looking forward to seeing this, mostly because I have frequently visited Kiruna, where it was shot, the past few years. Technically there is a solid craftsmanship at work here, the photography is nice and so forth. Still, where it is lacking is in the scriptwriting and directing departments. The storytelling is unfocused, confused and sometimes just plain sloppy. Crucial information is conveyed by jarring use of voice-overs, where it just as easily could have been worked into the dialog. The backstory of the congregation and the charismatic leader is not properly setup and explained, and thus never becomes believable. I get a sense of post-production tinkering, along the lines of "oh, we should explain this or that because we forgot (could't afford) to shoot it...etc". The use of fast cross-cutting between dramatic events, flashbacks etc, is irritating and oftentimes deprives scenes of dramatic potential (possible spoiler: the incident with the dog, for example). Despite the best of intentions, this emerges as a fairly mediocre movie. I have not read the book on which it is based, and if this is anything to go by, I probably will not bother. Isabella does the best she can with the thin material, as well as most of the other actors. All in all, the scriptwriter and director is to blame here.