User Reviews

So first of all: the CGI is quite good. I can't comment on the acting because a lot gets lost in the dub.

BUT...none of the decisions in this movie make sense, or we don't get any explanation to some things, lets look at some examples***spoilers***

1) A tunnel is being dug, and people protest. Why?

2) No one believes its a creature, so why call a paleontologist?

3) She does not believe its a troll, but thinks her troll-expert dad can help...

4) when the troll first appears, she can smell him. It smells "supernatural"...that is never explained

5) even when see on live TV, people still don't want to call it a troll. I feel like every Norwegian knows what a troll is and would immediately recognize one, even if you don't believe in them.

6) Modern weapons don't harm the troll but somehow, medieval Europe killed the entire troll-king-family

7) Trolls die in sunlight, apparently overcast is fine though

8) 50meter trolls walks through an evacuated Oslo? Better nuke it...

9) folk tale tells us trolls get angry at church bells....so lets annoy him with church bells and then act surprised when he gets really annoyed

10) circling a troll with helicopters? Better fly in closer for no reason so you can all get smashed (scene was a copy paste of log skull island)

11) troll attack in 10 minutes and you aren't ready setting up your defenses in time? Better stop working and give a lame speech for moral

12) mad troll expert went to mental hospital for his beliefs....but the king of Norway highly respected this man and knew he was right

13) heroes realize killing the troll is wrong. Are super happy when it dies anyway

the movie is too Hollywood for its own good. I thought at first it might be a spiritual sequel to Troll Hunter (excellent movie), but sadly it's more of a sequel to 1998 Godzilla (a terrible movie). It's not a wate of time, but nothing special either.

The start of the film started out great. The plot was solid and mostly original. Unfortunately things started going downhill when it turned into your typical monster movie with a lack of plot and idiotic characters.

When the troll first escapes the mtn. There are many witnesses and we even see phone footage from one of them but that plot line ends there and somehow news never spread of a massive troll despite all of the people that would have told the media about it.

Then when the government/ military find the troll they attempt to kill it with small weapons when they could have easily called in an airstrike and safely destroyed it while it was in the middle of nowhere with no casualties or collateral damage.

When this fails, they also fail to evacuate the local towns and the troll wanders into a theme park. I get that maybe the government wanted to keep it a secret to avoid public panic but it was inevitable for a King-Kong sized troll to become world-wide knowledge. They could have easily evacuated the towns by using any number of believable lies or just by using the truth.

When the troll is in the theme park the military "attacks" it with bells. They literally pull a "Kong" and fly the helicopters straight in the face of the Troll and he easily knocks them down (except the one the protagonists are in of course).

This does at least let them know that the troll is sensitive to sounds but they dont use that information to help defend the capitol until he's already inside.

Then this troll travels all the way from the wilderness to the Nations capital and they dont try to stop it until it gets well within the city. They try using rifles and tanks again that obviously don't work and the soldiers all die.

It's not until the troll is already in the middle of the city and surrounded by millions of people that they decide to use some sort of nuke. Apparently they have tanks and nukes but they dont have anything in between that would have worked much more effectively.

In the finale, the girl turns off the lights, endangering all of the soldiers in a foolish effort to save the troll. The stupid soldiers draw their rifle's because they think that will somehow defend them.

The cherry on top is that the royal family (or whatever they're called) apparently knew about the existence of trolls the whole time and kept it a secret instead of studying their fossils or assisting in the defense when one arrives.

The protagonists also manage to load a massive troll scull by hand into the back of a really old pickup truck even though it probably weighs 10x the weight of the truck. The truck magically operates just fine under the weight and outruns the troll at high speeds

Some girl also manages to magically hack into the governments missile system in 5 minutes and remotely take control over the analog buttons inside a jet.

The protagonists plans always involve them running right under the trolls feet and hopefully not getting smooshed.

Their special plan is to trap the troll and surround him with UV light to kill him. But they wait until gets their to set up the lights so thankfully he holds still for them for several seconds so they can finish getting ready even though they could've easily been prepared the entire time. And thankfully he stands still in the light for several more seconds instead fleeing as he burns.

The protagonists also love to play God and do whatever they want and endanger everyone's lives with their spur of the moment whims because they're arrogant and think that they know best and dont care if other people get hurt because of it. She tries to reason with the monster that was trying to kill her seconds before and because this is a stupid movie.....it works... almost... except time fast forwards from midnight to sunrise in 10 seconds so that the sun can dramatically kill the troll.

The assistant also "resigns" and then regrets it.... What I mean by that is he regrets "resigning" instead of quitting.... He regrets his word choice. Then at the end of the film he goes to his boss (Prime Minister) and says "when I said I resign, I meant I'm quitting this job to go be a writer" -paraphrasing here- and this is maybe the dumbest part of the whole film.

1. Annoy someone by throwing sand and rocks at someone 2. Ring bells in ears to annoy 3. When they get mad, blame them 4. Dig up a dead relative (+ points if it's a child) 5. Taunt with the dead persons head 6. Lead to trap 7. Set victim ablaze 8. Pour water on them 9. Tell them that they are free 10. Set them ablaze again Those 10 easy steps will help you torture like a real CIA agent.

But on a serious note the plot is really messed up, they wake up as troll (his whole bloodline was murdered by humans) and then just taunt the poor troll to his slow and painful death.

This movie makes me feel good about nuking the town of Megaton in Fallout 3. If the troll was a human the movie would be banned in 92 countries for being too brutal.

I'm not sure if this movie is meant to hold a mirror up to humans and the fact they can be real d*cks, or if its actually serious? The poor guy gets woken up by humans being d*cks and blasting their way through a mountain. He does nothing other than walk about trying to find his way home to his family. It transpires that humans ambushed and killed his family and trapped him in the mountain to die. From the minute he wakes up people are again trying to kill him, even though he hasn't actually done anything malicious to anyone, and in fact actually saved a child and his father. Finally it looks like sanity will prevail, but no, they end up killing him anyway, and they all celebrate?? Even the one who was trying to save him? Stupid, pointless and annoying.

On absolutely fun old school monster movie, where you despise the humans and for the monster. Also as I would guess an ode to Godzilla do not mess with Mother Nature. The pacing of the movie was well done it did not feel over an hour and a half and definitely fell in love with the papa character. On a completely selfish side note I really wish they would have somehow tied in the troll Hunter movie with this because I think that would have made a fun crossover seeing how the two best Troll movies have come out of Norway. And don't go into this thinking it's going to be the greatest monster movie ever just sit back and have fun.