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I cannot agree with those rating this "superlative" as i found myself becoming angry and frustrated at how almost every character was an appalling human being . Please dont tell me you have sympathy for the psychopath mother .She is vindictive,selfish ,deranged ,nasty. Her daughter is only a little better and has sat on vital evidence for 18 years .The second ex husband is also a poor specimen : the father of the accused man is a monster : the mother though now mentally disturbed also colluded with her monster husband to frame their innocent son : the local councillor is another monster and her daughter a devious spoiled brat ; the butcher is a mess of a woman and the journalist barely better than the rest of them . The detective is dim and lazy . So there you have the particpants . Turns out the alleged culprit is/was the decent person in a societal cesspit .

The photography was attractive and i thought the acting fine though others disagree .The script is riddled with silly actions that no one would undertake and holes one could drive a bus through .

Wouldnt recommend to anyone unless it was the only thing to watch.

This series promised so much but instead delivered little .The main problem that runs through every scene is the ludicrous behaviour of the Norwegian mother ,Anneke von der Lippe .It is not the actress's fault but the script which shows her as undertaking ridiculous nasty counter productive actions at every turn .She excuses this as "she is a mother" as if being a mother allows just about every pathetic worthless action rather than letting the experienced professionals get on with trying to sort things out She is the cause of the deaths of the hostage girl and the Gaza boy because she keeps pressing the Israeli intelligence chief to take crazy actions using blackmail . . And suspend disbelief as she would never have been allowed to rampage aroud Israel and Gaza if this were a real situation . The contribution of the Norwegians in the so called Oslo Accords 1993 was completely pointless and achieved nothing .. It is ironic that the opening credit shows Bill Clinton declaiming a major event for world peace ..worthless just like almost all of his statements .

There are some major plot holes but just about forgiveable if the rest of the script had been plausible but alas it was not .

The relationship between Alex the Norwegian woman and. Arik the Israeli minister was miscast as she is in real life 12 years his senior and on screen looks more .Perhaps he was her toyboy .

Disappointing and makes you want to scream at Alex ....go back to Norway you jerk.

Someone else also used this summary and gave a glowing positive review so it just goes to show that two people can see the same movie and experience completely different emotions. Having read several pages of IMDb reviews I can see that I am in a massive minority of those who have posted .But as with everything in life.. that doesn't make the majority right and the minority wrong ....I mean look at Trump ...oh sorry he lost the popular vote as well so even the "majority " was wrong ... Anyway this movie is complete drivel and one of the worst of the last decade . I deeply resent the waste of expenditure on two movie tickets and the two hours torn from my life . The script must have been less than 4 pages of A4 if the directions were left out as there was almost no communication worthy of the name and no subtlety in character development whatsoever . The "plot" is ludicrous so that would be OK if it was supposed to be a farce or a fantasy but I fear it was intended to be neither of those two genres . And of course I should have anticipated that to be the case in view of the Director's puerile previous work .I somehow thought he might have grown up . Towards the end a car containing one of the villains Buddy , John Hamm ,who has already been shot, is pushed through a barrier in a multistorey car park and falls at least 4 stories to the ground outside landing on its roof .Less than a minute later Buddy ..completely uninjured by this catastrophic incident ..has emerged from the car and somehow regained the fourth floor to attack the sort of hero "Baby" . So I suppose I am the idiot for believing that excitement ,thrills ,tension needs some element of credibility. With literally dozens slaughtered by gunshot and farcical car stunt chases ...yawn yawn ..oh surely the movie goer cannot get a thrill from such action...?..seen it all before a hundred times ..boring boring . The only remaining content of the movie was the music : good but anyone can phone up to license the use of the creativity and skill of real artists so it doesn't exactly count as some sort of creative worth and a nice performance from Ansel Elgort as Baby. Every other major actor played an "I am only doing this for the money" wooden caricature .If you are assessing this movie before going please don't waste your money and time .