Linbeymusol
Wonderful character development!
Dorathen
Better Late Then Never
MoPoshy
Absolutely brilliant
AshUnow
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
spj-4
Well! What a pleasant surprise I chanced on when I crossed the dial to find this Swedish movie on channel SBS! A quality production for a QUALITY channel!! This is a GREAT thriller! It has much drama but with solid plot underlying it! Several scenes in this are riveting & thoughtfully provoking! The background setting & human foibles & flawed decisions make for a gripping finale! There is violence & bloodshed, but it is not lacking in reality in such depictions or desperate situations! ... Well portraying the confused emotions of those who are victims! ... As well as those who ruthlessly attack without fairness or compassion or intent other than self-advantage!!! This is compelling viewing! I had intended to split my viewing between 2 other programs FAR less enthralling!! ... I found this instead!
alternativet90
I could go on for hours about all the things that stink about this movie, but just to be brief: - countless plot holes and illogical actions (e.g. the "professional bodyguards" leaves the country home of their client virtually unattended with THE GATES OPEN for the bad guys to simply drive through...) - The acting. Oh My God. Over-acting on some parts, while Eklund (as usual) looks like a tired Labrador and switches back and forth between his two only expressions: confused and confusedly smiling. - The dialogue. Jeez. How many clichés can you stuff into one script?I don't know why, but for some reason mediocre or downright awful action movies receive high grades if they're in Swedish, while no one would bother if they had been made in the USA. The Swedish film industry seems obsessed with making bad versions of American B-films. The horror. The horror.
Gabri L
After having been almost physically persuaded to see this movie (I don´t see Swedish movies anymore, they usually put my teeth on edge), I was extremely surprised by "Livvakterna". This and it´s predecessor "Noll Tolerans"(made by the same people, has the same main character) are most probably the only Swedish action thrillers to actually deserve that denomination.An introvert, hard boiled, cop goes to the funeral of his friend´s father, and gets involved in a yarn of extortion, blackmail and murder. The action scenes are realistic, nothing fancy, the characters believable, and most of all, the cinematography is excellent. A car chase through a Swedish forest will go down in history as a modern classic, and the director made good use of cut and sound to highten the suspence. And believe me, towards the end I found myself biting my fingernails to the quick!All in all, the best in its genre to come out of Sweden in a long time, and I hope that this movie sets a standard!
norsted
As the former writer said, it´s a rather good action-thriller. The best one I have seen on Swedish cinemas anyway. Go see it!
