Someone else said it best when they said "the guy is a moron". Danish viewers will no doubt hear and see the resemblance of the main character to Frank Wham in Clown, a sitcom in the vein of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Emotional and dramatic music is played throughout the film, but all I could hear was the Clown theme. The main character simply doesn't evoke a lot of sympathy. He behaves like a child, and I'm not feeling his passion for his work nor his love of the women he meets. He lies and steals to acchieve his goals, but totally stubborn and can't take any hits to his pride. A very annoying protagonist, that you can't root for. The side characters get a more satisfying ending. It's also bad timing on the directors half that causes the ending to fizzle out. It seems rushed. There are many sudden jumps in time where a lot of important things happen off screen. The whole thing would have worked better as a 10 episodes series... The acting is OK, I guess, if you don't have a problem with the constant gravity of every situation, dramatic pauses and lack of social realism. Overall, it's an OK movie with high production value that I suspect non-danish speakers may enjoy more than natives.
Review of A Fortunate Man
