When the Scandinavians do a great job with their more recent offerings of Noir films, the early versions were pretty terrible. The Van Veeteren series is one of these terrible versions. The acting is amateurish, the actors wear too many ill-fitting toupees, and the pace of the story is extremely slow and boring, eventually causing the viewer to lose interest in the character, story and series. I could only manage the first in the series before opting to not continue with the others. There are too many offerings out there than this to waste hours of precious viewing time.
