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Director Fenar Ahmad takes on the savagery in underworld Copenhagen. As any movie of this caliber, when violence rules, the hard punches come through over the top production design and a fine cast.

Protagonist Zaid (Dar Salim) goes on a vendetta after his kid brother is beaten to death. Fueled by guilt for not aiding him, Zaid starts training himself (again) and teams up with old training pals. In the underworld, the mobster Semion (Ali Sivandi) is not only a crime lord but a hard-punching martial artist. The table is set for a grand meeting between two opposite types of hard-hitting men.

The standoff starts at a restaurant (Michael Mann style in Heat 1995) with Semion having a monologue on racial equality towards an expensive lifestyle. The only line delivered between the two men, that actually sets of a motion to do battle is when Semion asks Zaid where he was, when his brother needed him. The scene never climbs in tension, but stays in a face of desperation as seen in Zaids face, but only guilt, giving the knife Zaid has in his hand under the table, no point at all. Not even Semions provocative language seems to alter Zaids with his mind already set (Zaid says to his pregnant wife, that they should go away, when all "this" is finished).

The rampage begins and Zaid trains like Batman in a slow Rocky-like montage, dressing in black, even painting his motorcycle black, blowing up Semions interests. Hitting back, Zaids wife and friends are all subject to attack, fueling the rage out of control. At this point we still only have Zaids melancholy towards his own sense of bad conscience, and never the tension that always builds between two combatants before a fight. Family feuds never erupt, when Zaid goes home to confront his parents, but stays with characters accusing each other, never revealing the passion people go through, when a family member has died.

The final, the standoff and Zaids revenge. We have seen it time after time, (recomendable in Death Sentence 2007) there is no sense or reason in blood-revenge, only the character's emotions. The tension between Semion and Zaid never winds up, there is nothing to let go and thus giving the movie its slow paced graphic violence, without the tension that should have fueled the desire to have revenge. Zaid's fight is more in himself, than towards others, leaving his rampage looking like a high educated man, snapping after losing a family member.

Point is, Zaid is punching on others for the wrong reason, getting up like a monster you can't kill. But then again, is there ever a good reason to punch or even kill another person?

This movie is really predictable, no one can argue that. You really don't have to wonder what's next. It's a classic revenge story, with a Nordic twist. Visually movie is easy to watch and it definitely got some stylish scenes and actors are doing really good performances. After rising expectations high with slow and thrilling start, movie loses its grip and makes you think that this movie got almost all the elements to be much better, but it just don't deliver. Still worth to watch.

Zaid (Dar Salim) is a successful Iraqi surgeon living in Denmark. His family came there 30 years ago. He has assimilated very well, while those around him have not. When his brother, needing his help, is murdered, Zaid conducts the investigation that the police won't do.

We have seen these cops won't do their job, guy works out and goes after bad guy films. Not the best vigilante film out there, just a different location.

Guide: Swearing, sex. No nudity. Subtitles.

Great till the end. Spoiler. Dont read this

So the cops were useless the entire movie. Typical. Like in real life they dont help when u need them and are in the way when u try to do good. They arrest him at the end but could never do anything to stop this drug crime lord. So typical. Not into reality stories see to much of this already. The good guy always gets screwed and crime always pays off. Look at the richest ppl in the world. Their money is based on crime. Even USA president wasnt his old money from prostitution and bootleg or something. Seems like evil wins and good suffers. What a stupid world

May contain spoilers. Im gonna make this short. If you like a movie, where a random guy with very little fighting skill, becomes a hand to hand combat and weapons specialist, in very short time, this is a movie for you! The first hour is slow and kind of boring and then the revenge campaign starts. Its not a bad movie, but doesn't deserve a above 7 rating on IMDb. Its only because its Danish it got that high rating.

Relentlessly, unmercifully predictable at every step.

Of course, the native born Danish police are made out to be worse than the criminals who killed this guy's brother. Immigrants are the real heroes, because they are all doctors and lawyers and such while our man wants to be a cowboy. Sorry, I've heard this song before. And before you think I'm some racist nationalist let me say that I speak Arabic (although the Iraqi they speak in this film is unintelligible to me).

And then it turns into Rocky (hardly a spoiler on my part as the trailer gave away the entire film).

And then it turns into Batman.

This is a really bad movie. Because of all the intensions.

The storyline is so out of any plausible story. Which is disappointing because the leading star, Dar Salim, almost would have played the role by himself. He has it all. He is unique. He tells a story even just by looking at him. It's like this PTSD-soldier look.

It could be awesome. If it wasn't made out this big. If it was made way smaller. Let the pictures tell.

I can't figure out what the movie wants. It isn't a story. If a movie doesn't have a story I won't categorise it as a movie. It fails.

Go watch Pusher I, II, first 40 minutes of Bleeder and the to/three first episodes of 'Kriger'.