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In Order of Disappearance (2014)

Norwegian Kill Bill

Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

7.3

movie

Denmark, Norway
Danish, English, German
Action-packed, Dark, Weird
2014
Hans Petter Moland
Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Arben Bala, Arthur Berning
115 min

Synopsis

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Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”

Our Take

7.3
The Staff

This movie is pretty much in every regard a Norwegian Kill Bill. It’s a dark gory comedy where, naturally, the substitute for Uma Thurman doing damage is an emotionless Stellan Skarsgård.

After his son is killed by a drug gang, Skarsgård’s character, fresh off a win of a “citizen of the year” award, embarks on a ruthless journey to track and kill the murderers. This takes place in one of the most remote areas in Norway, where the main character works as a snowplow driver. You guessed it, some people will get snowplowed.

Seems familiar? That’s because this year it was turned into a horribly sub-par American movie called Cold Pursuit, with, ugh, Liam Neeson.

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wendy naughton

I love this movie. It very dry humor and amazingly acted. The weather is a key character and everything about it is brilliant.

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