★ 6 / 10
Cold intrigue, continuous suspense and several murders that must be solved by Department Q.
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Detective Carl Mork (Ulrich Thomsen) and his cold case department are back in action in this sixth installment for the big screen of the successful novels by…
Detective Carl Mork (Ulrich Thomsen) and his cold case department are back in action in this sixth installment for the big screen of the successful novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen and script written by Jakob Weis. The department has to investigate the death of a young girl who was hit by a car, named Alberte. The case that was falsely closed as a traffic accident is reopened when Christian Haabersat (Peter Mygind) , an old friend and colleague of Carl Morck from his years at the police academy, commits suicide in front of the guests at his farewell party, haunted by the memory of Alberte. The killing, officially written up as a traffic accident, has connections to both the local Police precinct and a cult of sun worshipers from where young women have vanished without trace for years. Mørck must solve the case and confront his past to move forward with his fiancée. Along the way, Rose (Sofie Torp) is tasked with finding the connection of some murders to a weird cult. It's not long before she's on the run from those who intend to kill her because of what she knows.Police thriller in the purest Nordic style with strong suspense, emotion, plot twists, action enough, and including a dark photography. Ulric Thomsen gives a decent acting , he's a prestigious actor with a long career that includes both cinema and TV, such as: The good traitor, Ambassador Kauffman, Face to face series,Brothers, Celebration, , Blacklist and Banshee series, he once again plays the tough investigator Carl Morck. Ulric was already the protagonist of the fifth installment of the saga, on this occasion he has to investigate the death of a girl who was found hit by a car and dead on a tree.In this sixth installment, the people in charge of giving life to the brave and surly Carl Morck is Ulrich Thomsen and his faithful assistants change, being now played by the unknown: Sofie Torp as Rose and Afshin Firouzi as Assad. This film adapts a successful novel, ¨Den Grænseløse¨, the sixth and best-selling book written by Jussi Adler-Olsen, to the big screen. This procedural thriller is uneven but professionally directed by Ole Christian Madsen and has a script by Jakob Weis, replacing Nikolaj Arcel, who had written the storyline for the four previous novels and adapted the first installment of 'Milennium', another of the most important Nordic sagas in history. Director does it European way, showing sharply in the dark cinematographic approach within the story.This is the sixth adaptation, most of them concerning a relentless search and murder investigations carried out by the members of the Q Deapartment that take them deep into the undercurrent of corruption, abuse, ambition, greed and malice that hides beneath the surface of the prosperous Scandinavia. The first of sextet starred by the great protagonists Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares who signed a four-film deal, matching the number of Department Q novels written by Jussi Adler-Olsen that had been published at the time of filming. The saga is as follows: ¨Kvinden i buret¨ or ¨The Guardian of Lost Causes¨ (2013) by Mikkel Nørgaard with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Sonja Richter. ¨Fasandreperne¨ or ¨Pheasant Killers¨ (2014) by Mikkel Norgaard with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pilou Asbæk. ¨Flaskepost fra P¨ or ¨A Conspiracy of Faith¨ (2016) by Hans Petter with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen, Amanda Collin. ¨Diario 64¨ or ¨The Purity of Revenge¨ (2018) by Christoffer Boe with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Johanne Louise Schmidt, Søren Pilmark. Despite being extremely succesful both critic and public, author Jussi Adler-Olsen was unhappy with the adaptations of the first four novels of the series and thus entrusted the film rights to the next books to another production company, resulting in the change of cast in this latter: ¨Marco effekten¨ or "The marco effect¨ (2021) by Martin Zandvliet with Ulrich Thomsen as Carl Mørck and Zaki Youssef as Assad.
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★ 5 / 10
Low budget?
larshelveg-79600
Let's face it...Department Q died when they changed the cast after the fourth movie. This latest movie just doesn't change that fact. I am very disappointed!…
Let's face it...Department Q died when they changed the cast after the fourth movie. This latest movie just doesn't change that fact. I am very disappointed! The plot is thin and the excitement and humor is absent. I was not entertained and I have no idea where Carl Moerch is in the story. It's more about Rose than about Carl. Assad is a weak sidekick.
To me it looks like a low budget film. But first of all the biggest problem is the cast. Apparently the producers know this since they changed the cast for both Rose and Assad since the last movie.
Bring back Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares og Johannes Louise Schmidt. They are in another league.
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★ 7 / 10
ok to watch but nothing special
maratonrunner
I looked forward to see this movie. Hoever I was soon felt let down. Ulrich Thomsen is one of my favoirte actors is feels plays more confused than in…
I looked forward to see this movie. Hoever I was soon felt let down. Ulrich Thomsen is one of my favoirte actors is feels plays more confused than in character. The person playing assad is like a meaningless background character in the book is interesting and has humour. Assad in the moive adds nothing to the movie and is completely emotionless not even a camal joke. I guess the creators thught that humour was lame and did not want it. Rose in the book was also a bit wierd and interesting. In the movie is she is also very dull.
Without any spoilers the plot feels forced.
Also the sex scenes feels like they hold back go all in if you include it.
All in all I don't understand if Jussi Adler Olsen thought it was better to use those actors than Lie Kaas they had humour that could lift the story. But this is not the high standard it could be.
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The audio is in Russian, please original audio. Thanks