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I have to admit that the the makers of this film had me hooked during the first 30 minutes or so of it. It's a shame the rest of it is so predictable and full of improbabilities that it ends up being quite a disappointment of a film.

It has a lot going for it. Two somewhat talented directors (though one could question if there's a need for two in this case), a brilliant cast and a beautiful setting. What it lacks is a decent and not so derivative script.

Some of the things that bugged me:

Sofia Ledarp's character hides in a hunter's tower in one scene. This makes for poor choice of location as there's not a single person in the (Swedish) audience that doesn't immediately think of Kjell Sundvall's Jägarna.

There's a German hunter character that turns up halfway through the film. I don't speak German, but I'm relatively sure that he says he's hunting moose. What else is there to hunt in Sweden for a German hunter? Stereotypes anyone?

Björn Kejllman's character is shot in his side, possibly through his stomach and still manages to survive one night and half a day out in the woods though it is quite likely that he has sustained internal bleeding.

In one scene, Sofia Ledarp's character manages to sneak into the back-seat of the car driven by the man hunting her, where she gets hold of a phone. She uses it to call the Swedish equivalent of 911 and she has to whisper quite high for the operator to hear her. Why is it that Kjell Bergqvist's character (the man hunting her) can't hear her? He has to be deaf not to hear her, and he's obviously not deaf as he manages to find her wherever she hides for the entirety of the film.

It's highly improbable that Björn Kejllman's character would be found at all at the end of the film.

Regarding the ending, there's not much to say. This is the kind of film that ends in one of two ways:

1) The main character manages to escape and runs out into an open field where he/she gets rescued by a police/military helicopter.

2) The main character manages to escape and finds his/her way to a road, where he/she gets help from the passengers of a conveniently approaching car. The driver of the car is either a savior or, in some cases, the man hunting him/her.

Guess which one they went with...

Hi there,

the story of the movie is very simple.

There are some things in the movie I don't understand. The man who kidnapped the woman is a serial killer in my understanding because he told the kidnapped woman that she isn't the first one in his little jail.

So he is a serial killer. There were two scenes the serial killer was shooting and hitting the victims. One was the hit of the man that helps the woman. The hunter wasn't far away. The woman gets the hitted man and gets him behind a big rock. So why wasn't the hunter follow and get them both?

Another scene was: the woman ran away. The hunter hitted her with a sniper rifle and the woman was not far away from him. She crawled behind a rock. But WTF was the hunter do? Was he drinking a coffee or watching a movie until he gets back to meet the woman on the big meadow? He could simply walk to her and get her. She was only a few meters away. That's no serial killer that's a ridiculous noob.

The end was pure dilletantism. The woman had no problems to bear down this weak dilletante bungler. So this has absolutely nothing to do with reality.

I was wishing that the serial killer had more intelligence so that the woman had to do much more interesting things to win at the end.

In one scene the woman was lying in the car of the serial killer and phoned the police in his car while he was driving with his phone. There were no music in the car but he wasn't hearing anything. My goodness you can't be serious about that. That's so ridiculous.

Regards, Tom

Went into the cinema with a very open mind, and was pleasantly surprised! The movie starts out with Malin (Sofia Ledarp) moving from her hometown. During her road trip she starts to feel uncomfortable as she is followed by a strange man (Bergqvist). One night Malin is kidnapped and this starts a battle for survival.

That is pretty much it. But I was on the edge of my seat most of the film. You are never quite sure if Malin is going to make it or not. You can tell the filmmakers are huge horror fans - a genre not very common in Swedish films.

There are some flaws, though. The film takes a while to really get going and maybe there are one too many forrest vistas. But overall, if you want some classic tension then give this film a shot!