7/10
Nice picture of western corporate culture
22 August 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Enjoyable movie, well worth watching.

The good:

1) dry humor which is quite fresh after all those Hollywood comedies

2) many hilarious moments, I was laughing thru most of the movie

3) the violent scenes were absolutely amazing, especially the one where the street cleaners were trying to take off the corpse from the spiked fence

4) lots of details which make it very believable. Although I live in Germany and not in Norway, the co-workers of the main character where very similar to the typical officer workers you find in Germany

The bad:

1) the movie is too long, many static scenes. You have already understood what the author wanted to say, but the scene stays there for 10 seconds more. Such seconds add up to minutes and you get a film 2-3 times longer than it should have been

2) the ending was a disappointment. It looked as if the movie was just cut at some point, since there was no finale, no conclusion and no twist or anything interesting at the end

3) actually the idea of criticizing the middle class is very old, so the film brings really nothing new, even though it's still entertaining

4) at some places the satire was just too absurd to even be funny, e.g. the scene where the main character stands fully covered in blood and his girlfriend talks about the weekend
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