Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

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

gbrad43 I have just started watching the bridge! I love it! What a character she is! The old porsche, the leather pants, the aspergers! She has it all!

Lynne A Phillips My wife and I just watched Seasons 1 and 2. They were great. Excellent acting and both plots made sense. There is a lot of material on Danish inspector Martin Rohde's family and history, but it all fits nicely into both plots. Not a soap opera. Season 2 introduces more characters than Season 1, but almost everything is resolved in the end. We've watched scores of detective series and this is one of the best. We hope Season 3 is just as good.

robert-temple-1 Believing the hype that this Swedish TV series would be as interesting as the recent Danish ones (see my reviews of THE KILLING and BORGEN), I ordered the DVD of Season One (10 episodes). I need not have bothered. I forced myself to sit through three episodes, hoping for improvement, but it only got worse, much worse. The main thing wrong is that the Swedish woman detective who is the lead in this series is played by a woman who cannot act. Sofia Helin certainly gets my award for The Most Irritating Actress in the World, and that says something! She is enough to make me turn off any DVD or boycott any cinema. She has no business being an actress, and should retire in disgrace. There may be some who think she is 'sexy' (which seems to be the only thing that matters these days, as talent is so much less valued), but I have rarely seen a less 'sexy' woman either. Even more bizarre, starting from this rock bottom of non- entity and non-talent, she is then asked to play a role of a woman detective who is very clever but suffers from some form of autism or Aspergers Syndrome. This compounds disaster by utter folly. To say that it is impossible to feel even the slightest twinge of sympathy for Helin's character, with the improbable name of 'Saga' (and this series certainly is a saga of producers' incompetence), would be to understate the case. Helin is enough to make you want to rise from your chair and strangle the television set. Not that that would do any good, because she would still be out there, threatening to bore and irritate everyone to death, though torturing them first by means of ten episodes. The Danish detective, played by Kim Bodnia, is very good and also sympathetic. But he is wasting his time, and so is everyone who watches this travesty. The directing is OK, and it is the producers who must be blamed for everything that has gone wrong here. As has become the fashion these days nearly everywhere, we are treated to endless shots of the most gruesome and ugly scenes. We get to look again and again at people sliced in half, with the camera lovingly dwelling on the states of the severed entrails, and a discussion of the meat-saw which was used to bisect the women. As usual, there is a psychopath at work, though I am inclined to believe he is not only a character in the series, but probably a producer as well. I am sure this series will be very popular viewing in witches' covens, pathology departments, and mental hospital wards for the incurably insane.

George Wright I'm into the third season of this riveting series. The plot is very complex with more characters than necessary but it draws the viewer into their various background stories, which are woven into each series. Suspenseful it is, and each season brings a new adventure against the dark side of human society; however, we see what is going on with the personal stories that hold our interest. In the first two seasons, we find the Swedish detective Saga working alongside Martin, her Danish counterpart, whose past catches up with him. Saga is challenged by autism, which strains her personal relationships, but Martin tries to help her with tips that she tries awkwardly to follow. Another Danish police detective, Henrik becomes her partner in season three. As with Martin, he too has a lot of personal baggage but he becomes fascinated with Saga. At first, the outlines of their personal histories are alluded to but in time, these become key to the plot. The main plots involve timely stories about refugees, eco-terrorists, and underworld characters who are pursued by Saga, Martin and Henrik along with their Danish and Swedish colleagues. Action swings back and forth over the bridge connecting the two countries. In fact, crimes happen close to the bridge thereby requiring both sides to work together. The setting is dark, grim and joyless but there are genuine human touches from time to time. This series is harsh but we enjoy the twists and turns in the stories and the personal lives of the characters.