Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

peterrichboy If your a fan of Nordic noir like me then there is enough here in Department Q to keep you entertained for 90 minutes. Whilst I did find the plot far fetched and totally implausible. The fast paced script quality acting, and the usual dark moody cinematography the Danes do so well, made this an enjoyable watch and look forward to further installments.

paul2001sw-1 'The Keeper of Lost Causes' is neither the first nor the last crime drama you'll see featuring a bad-tempered, middle-aged cop nurturing personal suffering and who plays by nobody's rules but his own. But it loses additional points for its ridiculous villain, with his implausible motivations and his Dr. Evil-like plan to murder his victim, which predictably is foiled only at the final moment. The weird thing here is that the tone of the drama is down-to-earth, realistic, yet the crime is almost comically preposterous (and the story of how the hero uncovers the truth scarcely less so). It's definitely not the finest hour of "Scandi-Noir".

subxerogravity Cause it feels like the beginning of a great police drama, and I found out as I was leaving the theater that I saw this in, that This movie was one in a trilogy called Department Q, and The Keeper of Lost Causes makes me want to see the other two so badly.Carl is one of those types of police detectives who is so driven by finding justice and solving the case that he has isolated all the other hard working but worn out police detectives, and when his last Homicide case ends with both him and his partner getting shoot, he's forced into desk duty in the basement tending to cold cases. The first case he tries to close was a familiar case he feels did not go down the way it's written and needs to be solved. I have to admit, that sometimes when you see a gritty cop drama with one minded police officers like Carl, you tend to get just as annoyed with him as everyone else in the film, but I did not feel that way about Carl. Maybe it was the actor or the fact that it was subtitled, but I like the character from the beginning.I also was a fan of the the supporting actor, his partner Assad. It was the perfect miss match as a young cop tried of his old position and just wants to do something more substantial versus Carl who feels like Department Q is where cops go to wait for retirement.The case in itself was a good one too. Just how the information was laid out was interesting, and easy to follow. Gave a sense that you were solving the case right along with them.The picture also displays the proper mood using very gritty colors and lighting to give a cold case feel.I definitely recommend The Keeper of Lost Causes, it's one of the best police dramas I've seen on the big screen, and I can't wait to see the rest of the Department Q series.

Anderson Santos The point that I should start is the official title, "The girl in the cage", I prefer by far the worldwide title since it focus more on the protagonist (has an off-topic: the Italian title makes it sound like a documentary). If you like the old drama/mystery/crime movies like I do, you will love this one, doesn't add really nothing to the gender, but it's so well produced and the acting was on point, got to love when you see an actor, Nikolaj L. Kaas in this case, waking up in a realistic way, the mood of the whole movie brings you to that slow passing detective drama, rare in our days, with all the CSI around, and ends up with a very thrilling ending.TL;dr - Noir nordish mood crime/drama