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Critics Consensus: The true story of the Danish resistance in WW2, though lengthy and sprawling, is gripping and competently made.
Critic Consensus: The true story of the Danish resistance in WW2, though lengthy and sprawling, is gripping and competently made.
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Madsen has acknowledged a strong debt to Pierre Melville's 1969 classic Army of Shadows. This one deserves a seat at the same table.
It's fast-paced, stylish and thrilling. But it also raises one tough question.
It winds its way through a tricky, fact-based plot that's sometimes reminiscent of film noir. At the center is a bewitching femme fatale whose allegiances and motives are less than clear.
While it may not be a smorgasbord of red herrings and red meat, Flame and Citron is often chilling.
Madsen makes the most of his budget, and he keeps pulling his camera back for long, visually sumptuous overhead shots.
To its credit, the film gives full weight to the confusion and ambivalence of war; the struggle for liberation from tyranny rarely looks so dubious.
The film is too staid and over-conscious of its own importance to be entertaining. Give me The Great Escape any day of the week.
A hard jewel of righteous political fury.
...a film noir set in wartime where there's moral ambiguity almost everywhere you look as well as large measures of heroism, treachery and ordinary human failings.
A drop-dead gorgeous period noir, rife with paranoia, femmes fatales, and good men inexorably sinking into the bloody mire and opaque texture of life (and death) during wartime.
Unfortunately, although it was supposedly inspired by the morally conflicted French Resistance masterpiece Army of Shadows, Flame fizzles more than it flames.
A suspenseful, often riverting drama of World War II resistance that combines old-fashioned virtues of craft and style with a more modern sense of nuance and complexity.
The astonishing Mads Mikkelsen and the brilliant Thure Lindhart join forces as Danish assassins targeting Nazis. The famous duo are handed orders and become expertly proficient at executing their orders. The script makes sure to enter real character struggles as each murder does weigh on their minds. The violence is handled with a shocking honesty that never feels acceptable, even if the victims are Nazis. The film takes a seriously dramatic and conflicting turn when we dicover that perhaps those giving the orders weren't exactly innocent and perhaps some of the targets weren't as bad as we had thought. It leads us to a number of brilliant shoot-outs which are handled in a way that is never obvious nor sentimental.
Super Reviewer
True stories seem to pack a little more umph.
Well....all in all I thought that this movie was really good. Strong acting. Strong production. Strong true story. BUT, in between the action parts it really kind of dragged. Plus, I think they could have shaved off maybe 30 min or so. That being said, this is one of my favorite subjects, and this movie really did try hard to tell an excellent story. Word of advice: Dont watch this and Benjamin Button in the same day. Both really good movies, but you may have to take a nap in between the two.
Okay, it's a less known story of two martyrs (read 'resistance fighters' if you feel 'martyrs' is an exaggerated term) that needs to be told. Effort appreciated. But besides that the movie fails to rise above an average based-on-a-true-story action thriller war movie with a bit of interwoven romantic track. The blending of these genres isn't handled quite efficiently, & often served as a distraction for me. Regarding performances, while the 2 lead actors Thure Lindhardt (Flammen) & Mads Mikkelsen (Citronen) are impressive, the actress Stine Stengade (Ketty Selmer) seemed as a miscast to me. The supporting actors (actors playing Winther, Hoffmann, Gilbert, etc.) are credible, though. Finally, while not a must watch, the movie has its fair share of interesting moments & is quite watchable once. P.S. I'm not sure, but the term 'martyrs' may serve as a spoiler. Thought I should have the decency to let ya know, despite of being unsure. Hope I did the right, kind & helpful thing by mentioning about this (potential) spoiler alert.
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