Nicely shot and well-acted psycho-drama with a slow-burning tension. While it certainly keeps you guessing, it fails to really explain Michael's motivations and leaves a nasty aftertaste.

It's a decent enough film, yet not nearly involved as it should have been. I couldn't help but get the vibe that Levring was trying to force the "Hemingway effect" where most aspects of what is really happening lay under what it physically written or, in this case, seen on the screen. Trust me when I saw there's been much better portrayals of the all too common theory of the mid-life crisis.

I loved this. Has something of Adam's Apples over it (both written by ATJ and starring Thomsen and Steen), but this is much darker and more jarring. Carried by fantastic performances and a script which is surprising at every turn, this is largely ambiguous, oftentimes touching and other times painful to watch. Beautifully shot, this is in my opinion the best Scandinavian film since Adam's Apples. Not your run-of-the-mill mid-life crisis.

Great concept and setup in the first 20: our guy secretly goes on a clinical drug trial, which is then recalled because it's turning people into psychos! But by that time, he's addicted to the pills! What great potential to be the most blackly humourous gore-fest in cinema history, but instead this has no humour at all; all it has is bleak Scandinavian landscapes, introspection, silence, threats of violence, and dumb "will-they-won't-they-escape" thrillerisms. Tagline: "He'll bore you to death".

"The latest from the Dogma cine-factory is notable for director Kristian Levring's visual suggestion of madness." - Ed Gonzalez