Max Manus (2008)
(Max Manus: Man of War)
Country: NOR/DK/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch
Synopsis:
The wartime resistance career of hotheaded patriot Max Manus, from serving with the army on the Finnish front to destroying the Donau in Oslo harbour.
Review:
Impeccably mounted, semi-dramatised account of the exploits of Norway's foremost war hero, which keeps the action moving along at a pace through use of titles, albeit removing dramatic tension whenever it does so, not to mention inviting speculation as to the ineptitude of German counter-intelligence measures. No matter: this is a broad brushstroke affair, and as such it stokes up enough excitement and suspense, while leaving time for an ambivalent epilogue in which the hero confronts his enemy and questions his own relevance to peacetime.
(Max Manus: Man of War)
Country: NOR/DK/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch
Synopsis:
The wartime resistance career of hotheaded patriot Max Manus, from serving with the army on the Finnish front to destroying the Donau in Oslo harbour.
Review:
Impeccably mounted, semi-dramatised account of the exploits of Norway's foremost war hero, which keeps the action moving along at a pace through use of titles, albeit removing dramatic tension whenever it does so, not to mention inviting speculation as to the ineptitude of German counter-intelligence measures. No matter: this is a broad brushstroke affair, and as such it stokes up enough excitement and suspense, while leaving time for an ambivalent epilogue in which the hero confronts his enemy and questions his own relevance to peacetime.
(Max Manus: Man of War)
Country: NOR/DK/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch
Synopsis:
The wartime resistance career of hotheaded patriot Max Manus, from serving with the army on the Finnish front to destroying the Donau in Oslo harbour.
Review:
Impeccably mounted, semi-dramatised account of the exploits of Norway's foremost war hero, which keeps the action moving along at a pace through use of titles, albeit removing dramatic tension whenever it does so, not to mention inviting speculation as to the ineptitude of German counter-intelligence measures. No matter: this is a broad brushstroke affair, and as such it stokes up enough excitement and suspense, while leaving time for an ambivalent epilogue in which the hero confronts his enemy and questions his own relevance to peacetime.