7/10
A good and grim Nordic thriller with a twisted intrigue, suspense, action and violence
9 October 2023
A cold and dark film with thrills, chills, and scary incidents. The two detectives return to action adapting the third book of the bestselling ¨Department Q¨ saga by Danish Carl Valdemar, better known as Jussi Olsen. A bottle thrown into the Jutland sea with a message inside reaches department Q, responsible for unsolved cases. An old note is found in the bottle in which has traveled very long across the ocean a long time ago. The note is hard to decipher, but when the Danish investigator from Section Q receives it, the odd personalities within the section find a new angle on it and try to unveil yet another old and diabolic case even though the lead is cold. When they analyze the letter, they discover that it is written in tar, its author is a child, it is stained with blood and was thrown into the sea at least six years earlier. As two intertwined cases linking the past with the present require the aid of Department Q and they have to catch an elusive serial killer while time is running out. What happens if you can't let go of the past, if it eats you up inside?. Nothing is forgotten forever!. Based on the best-selling novel of First Department Q!. From the Screenwriter of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'!. Your last chance at him is the lost causes department!. Some missing children, a reopened case!

Police thriller in the purest Nordic style with strong suspense, emotion, plot twists and action enough, concerning a relentless search that takes them deep into the undercurrent of religious fanaticism, children abuse, and malice that hides beneath the surface of the prosperous Scandinavia. This slow-moving film with strong doses of violence, adapts the third successful novel, from best-selling books written by Jussi Adler-Olsen, to the big screen. This police thriller is well directed and has a script by Nikolaj Arcel, who had written the storyline for the film adaptation of the first installment of Milennium, another of the most important Nordic sagas in history. Director Petter Moland does it European way, showing clarity in the cinematographic approach within the story. Well starred by Nikolaj Lie Kaas as the brave and surly police inspector Carl Morck and Fares Fares as the faithful Islamist assistant Assad, both of them give magnificent interpretations .

It is a truly tragic film about a twisted inventigation in which our two protagonists face the most difficult case, an extremely religious fanatic villain who cares about nothing but achieving his ominous goals. This decent film was professionally directed by Hans Petter Moland, replacing Mikkel Norggaard, responsible for the first two installments of the saga. In this entry the unpredictable Carl Morck - more intractable and introspective than ever - is once again played by Nikolaj Kaas, while Fares Fares gives life, once again, to his faithful companion of the Assad department. Along with them nice actors appear , such as: Pål Sverre Hagen, Jacob Lohmann, Amanda Collin, Johanne Louise Schmidt, Jakob Oftebro , among others.

The great protagonists Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares signed a four-film deal, matching the number of Department Q novels written by Jussi Adler-Olsen that had been published at the time of filming. The saga is as follows: ¨Kvinden i buret¨ or ¨The Guardian of Lost Causes¨ (2013) by Mikkel Nørgaard with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Sonja Richter. ¨Fasandreperne¨ or ¨Pheasant Killers¨ (2014) by Mikkel Norgaard with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pilou Asbæk. ¨Flaskepost fra P¨ or ¨A Conspiracy of Faith¨ (2016) by Hans Petter with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen, Amanda Collin. ¨Diario 64¨ or ¨The Purity of Revenge¨ (2018) by Christoffer Boe with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Johanne Louise Schmidt, Søren Pilmark. And ¨Marco effekten¨ or "The marco effect¨ (2021) by Martin Zandvliet with Ulrich Thomsen as Carl Mørck and Zaki Youssef as Assad.
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