{"id":4862,"date":"2014-02-19T13:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T12:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2014-11-14T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T05:10:00","slug":"in-order-of-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2014\/02\/19\/in-order-of-disappearance\/","title":{"rendered":"In Order of Disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Order of Disappearance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\nFormat:<\/B> Cinema

\nRelease date:<\/B> 12 September 2014

\nDistributor:<\/B> Metrodome

\nDirector:<\/B> Hans Petter Moland

\nWriter:<\/B> Kim Fupz Aakeson

\nCast:<\/B> Stellan Skarsgård, Kristofer Hivju, Bruno Ganz

\nOriginal title:<\/B> Kraftidioten<\/i>

\nNorway, Sweden, Denmark 2014

\n115 mins\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Nils (Stellan Skarsgård) doesn\u2019t talk much. A snowplough driver by profession, and recently elected as the community\u2019s \u2018Man of the Year\u2019, he\u2019s more the kind of guy who skips the chitchat and gets right to the action \u2013 especially if he is upset, or angry, or both. And when his son suddenly dies of a heroin overdose, he is devastated and opts to take revenge. <\/p>\n

His urge for personal vengeance soon becomes a dangerous threat not only for the gangsters responsible for his son\u2019s death, who wrongly believed him to be engaged in a spurious drug scam. Rather, in the course of his investigations, he also shakes up the frosty relationship between the Norwegian drug Mafia and their Serbian opponents, which inevitably leads to a big showdown at Nils\u2019s depot. To reveal much more of the story would take the fun out of Moland’s droll and deftly crafted crime thriller, but rest assured that the number of characters drops quickly once Nils gets into the flow of things.<\/p>\n

Although the filmmaking is assured and the pace correspondingly brisk, keeping in line with its hero\u2019s spirit, there is no denying that Moland reworks a well-tested formula here, which places his playful slice of Nordic noir<\/i> at risk of running idle. He occasionally tries too hard to exploit the winning (and sometimes worrisome) simple-mindedness of some of the villains, while the initially amusing structure of the film (each death on screen is marked with an intertitle of a cross and the victim\u2019s name) somewhat looses momentum towards the end. But you have to give it to Skarsgård for keeping a perfectly straight face throughout, while Moland makes excellent use of the crisp, snowy landscape that, as ever, serves as an appropriate setting for a staggering war of revenge. <\/p>\n

Pamela Jahn<\/I><\/B><\/p>\n

Watch the trailer:<\/B><\/p>\n