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3/10
And the point is?
discogoth20 December 2001
This movie suffers from the same disease that many European films seem to have, and that's trying really, really hard to have an American flavour, in this case a pointless road movie of two completely dim witted characters, one of which is the guy, a red mohawk toting drunkard and drug addict, and a completely hot, leggy Scandinavian blonde who listens to techno music and dresses in tight, revealing clothes.

Everything about the characters seemed so fake to me. A dangerous underground drug scene in Iceland?? Right...next time I'm there I'll make sure to stay off the mean streets of Reykjavik. Somebody said that the style is very Tarantino-esque, and I'd have to agree. And what was with that big ugly leather studded shotgun toting ape?? Now, I'm not Icelandic and have never been there, but these rejects in the film really don't seem like the type of people you would find in an isolated country like that, but I could be wrong, after all, if a freak like Bjork can come from there, anything's possible.

The acting was more or less nonexistent, and the dialogue was so bad that it seemed like it was being made up as they went along.

I only liked two things about this movie; 1) it was a rare opportunity to see much of Iceland, a country that gets almost no attention (and in this case, the scenery that was shown wasn't even all that interesting), and 2) the lead actress was a completely gorgeous blonde with a body to die for and sexy clothes that made sure that you would notice. Since I caught this movie on late night cable I naturally assumed "oh wow, a hot model in an artsy-fartsy tries-so-hard-to-be-hip European teenager road movie...that means lots of explicit sex and nudity!". I swear that's the only thing that kept me watching this terrible movie, and guess what?? Even in that aspect I was let down. You get to see her lounge around a lot in a black bra and thong, but I only saw one lousy sex scene and in that they didn't even show anything! What a waste of talent!
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The greatest film ever!
bbggww28 December 2001
I have seen this great film at least 20 times and I keep on seeing new, wonderful things. There is absolutely nothing bad about it. The acting and the script is the best I have ever seen. I recommend it to everyone.
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1/10
could of been better
sam-19030 May 1999
This movie is far off the icelandic real-life and so close to the hollywood formula about a drug addict and all the trouble that he and the girl who is with him get in to. But let´s just face it there aren´t many out side iceland who are going to see this movie, so they should of just skipped the hollywood formula.
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6/10
It was pretty groovy
Well, I live in Iceland although I'm not Icelandic, anyways this movie was pretty cool but none of thats tuff would happen up here. But, as a film, it's very entertaining and it has all sorts of cool stuff in there. The acting sucked, though, pretty painful at time. But since it's all about the visuals, it's all good. You can easily overlook the crappy acting. If you wish to catch this flick. Hmm... I suggest Showcase, a Canadian channel. I know it's played on that channel a few times so your bound to catch it. I don't know if there'll ever be a DVD release, which is a shame. There should be more Icelandic films out there.
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8/10
Warsaw, Poland.
Todd-6025 June 1999
I saw this film at Warsaw Intl. Filmfestival with friends, we all liked it.

It´s beautifully shot, staged and directed. VERY VISUAL.

The director was at the screening and told about how Icelandic people loved to hate this movie, strange.....

I would be proud, very proud ...
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crap crap and crap
Mori11 February 1999
A bad movie from a bad director. In a true Icelandic fashion they cast talentless people in the lead and all the good actors in cameos. It´s incoherent and stupid and just plain boring but one thing on the plus side is that it visually looks good. It tries desperately to be hip and cool, with lame Tarantinoesque dialogue, but fails miserably ( a tip to all future Icelandic directors, don´t let the film end in a gun fight, those things never happen here so it doesn't work ). Avoid at all cost.
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