"Troll!!!"
This is the story of a Troll hunter named Hans, as recorded by a small team of amateur reporters from the university of Vorda(?), Norway. And because they didn't have the time or the money to come up with a proper story, they turned it into a lost footage kind of movie and hoped they'd get away with it. Which is... debatable.
The movie wastes no time in starting and gets to were it wants to go pretty fast. The situations are credible, things happen quickly, the main characters are introduced at once, even though it might not look that way, at first. The atmosphere of mystery and suspense is very well created and it is involving. But then... the time to explain everything comes and the answers are kinda... lame. Plus they spend 1200 years driving, which gets old really fast.
The special effects are quite good, both audio and video, some of them being pretty scary, actually. Loud, too. There is no music, other than whatever is playing on the radio.
The cinematography is... difficult. Like all movies in the genre, the framing is bad, the camera shakes and jerks like crazy (almost) all the time, the angles seem to be purposely bad and there is no hope of it getting any better. Still. The camera work is far, far better than other installments - like Cloverfield, for example - and some neat innovations are introduced. We get some glimpses of Norway's great outdoors and it is cool.
The actors do an OK job with the story they've got and render it pretty well, but I still think this would have worked much better in a different form. They could have left Hans all alone, dealing with the situation. Basically, whenever Hans is on the screen (and not driving for ages) the movie is good.
I have red some reviews mentioning humor and social comment but... I couldn't see any. Must be a Norwegian thing.
The Troll Hunter. Starts well, but then it gets boring. 8/10 for the first part, 4/10 for the second.
This is the story of a Troll hunter named Hans, as recorded by a small team of amateur reporters from the university of Vorda(?), Norway. And because they didn't have the time or the money to come up with a proper story, they turned it into a lost footage kind of movie and hoped they'd get away with it. Which is... debatable.
The movie wastes no time in starting and gets to were it wants to go pretty fast. The situations are credible, things happen quickly, the main characters are introduced at once, even though it might not look that way, at first. The atmosphere of mystery and suspense is very well created and it is involving. But then... the time to explain everything comes and the answers are kinda... lame. Plus they spend 1200 years driving, which gets old really fast.
The special effects are quite good, both audio and video, some of them being pretty scary, actually. Loud, too. There is no music, other than whatever is playing on the radio.
The cinematography is... difficult. Like all movies in the genre, the framing is bad, the camera shakes and jerks like crazy (almost) all the time, the angles seem to be purposely bad and there is no hope of it getting any better. Still. The camera work is far, far better than other installments - like Cloverfield, for example - and some neat innovations are introduced. We get some glimpses of Norway's great outdoors and it is cool.
The actors do an OK job with the story they've got and render it pretty well, but I still think this would have worked much better in a different form. They could have left Hans all alone, dealing with the situation. Basically, whenever Hans is on the screen (and not driving for ages) the movie is good.
I have red some reviews mentioning humor and social comment but... I couldn't see any. Must be a Norwegian thing.
The Troll Hunter. Starts well, but then it gets boring. 8/10 for the first part, 4/10 for the second.