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7/10
Complex and brilliant
sorenggk16 April 2010
Everything will be Fine presents a story that might seem confusing, and will very likely throw off a large portion of the audience. The hints to the true story are extremely vague and it is not before the very end of the movie that a slightly clearer, but still confusing hint is given. This leaves the audience in deep wonder, but gives them the opportunity to debate it for a long time after the movie has ended and offers a moment of joy when each individual person finally has a moment of clarity and grasps the concept of the movie. It is almost an epiphany, if you will.

Everything will be Fine is a complex and brilliant story. The plot twist will surprise and confuse many people and to grasp the full picture, and to have all the pieces of the puzzle match up, you just might have to watch the movie twice. In truth, you might enjoy it more the second time, where it is easier to connect the dots as the story unfolds. I for one, find it exceedingly refreshing to experience a movie that I actually enjoyed more the second time I saw it. Not many movies manages to get better and better. Is having to watch a movie twice to truly fathom it a good thing? You decide.
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7/10
Strange story arc and slightly puzzling, but worth it
robertemerald16 November 2019
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Russell Crowe once starred in a movie called A Beautiful Mind. The story arc here is not unlike that. That's a spoiler I know, so I'll be sure a tick the Yes box down below. Wherein A Beautiful Mind (2000) the viewer is compelled at first to follow the high-tension and highly engaging conspiratorial plot through much of the film before we learn the truth, Everything Will Be Fine follows a slightly different path, and is somewhat harder to watch. Be assured the high tension is there, but irritatingly it's tied to an increasingly unstable and distraught protagonist, whose behaviour is so wildly and strangely illogical you have trouble sympathising with him. He's almost instantly possessed and unreasonable. He's weird to his wife, abrupt with his sister, cursory and difficult with people trying help him, so dismissive of his important work colleague, that you just want to hit him. As a contrast, there was a second timeline running with the main one, explaining the source of all the trouble, and the guy in that at least didn't lose his marbles at the drop of a hat. This second guy was in almost the same situation and certainly the same danger. Then, suddenly, 10 minutes before the end, the penny drops, and you see a completely new timeline, six months before. I appreciate that the filmmaker here is trying to double the tension and create a seismic gravity shift to surprise and stun his audience. What is created is indeed a disturbed feeling of an evil being triumphant, and thus culturally achieving in most viewers a better appreciation of an important and difficult issue, which is admirable. I will certainly remember this movie, it did entertain though was far from an easy ride, and in that the filmmaker here has made a significant mark in the world. It's a pretty good thriller all up, and worth a look, but if you find yourself scratching your head at any point, rest assured, you're not the first one.
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3/10
The average parts make an even worse whole
chaz-2821 May 2011
A script writer is involved in a hit and run incident and instead of staying at the scene to wait for help, the victim tells him to take his backpack and get out of there. Inside are photos of Danish soldiers torturing what I assume are Iraqis. A mystery and suspense thriller ensue with government agents, shadowy figures the protagonist cannot be sure he can trust, relationship problems, work stress, possible mental illness, and one of the worst endings imaginable. The film had to end some way and this one lands with a loud thud. Everything will be Fine was at last year's Cannes Film Festival and currently has no U.S. release date; good, it would not make very much money here. If crowds want to spend their money on crap, they go see the latest action or animated film. Lackluster mysteries usually fall through the cracks.
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3/10
What a shame!!
spilkonto11 April 2011
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Must be honest to admit that I had looked forward to this movie. After Having seen the trailer, had the potential to play with films like Graduates and other larger Danish thrillers. But let it be us said at once that it did not reach those heights .. It came none heights.

It starts very good and actually sitting on the edge of the chair in the first 15-20. Then it is a debacle of rarely seen dimensions, where the film coincides almost proportionally with protagonist's life. It's all coke in the end where he loses his love, and you are left with a feeling of emptiness and feel that movie mildly abused 1 ½ hours of your life.

Susanne Bier pulled Danish film levels up, sin Christoffer Boe samples to destroy it by making a movie with only himself can understand. Works even as that Jens Albinus not even know what is going on at times.

Waste of time!
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