Reviews

Tomme tønner starts with our hero Ali (Bashir) coming out of a jail in Oslo, where his two friends are waiting, and he declares he have have a plan, in Egon Olsen style. The gang of three are likable people who screws things up all the time.

Tomme tønner is well made, but it's both too short and too long. The movie is funny at times, especially the scenes with the three main characters. Also Bjørn Sundquist and the pair Kim Bodnia/Slavko Labovic are very good.

Bodnia and Sundquist have a Hopper-Walken meeting (as seen in True Romance) that should've lasted much longer. The Dane acts like Tony Soprano - calm at times, mad at times - best shown in his meeting with the transport manager (Børresen) at a finer restaurant.

The romance story between Ali and Yasmin (Skavlan) was boring and out of place. Also the constant reminder of what've happened earlier in the movie was extremely annoying. It's not like it's a four hour movie - it's 83 minutes! The part where Fido (Hellum) was stopped by the police woman (Lene Alexandra Øien) was also meaningless, and I can only think of one reason why Skavlan and Øien are in this movie: Eye-candy.

Hanging with friends, surfing the channels and accidently ended up watching this short. Looking like a news channel (program), with a newsreader with a monologue, talking in a monotone voice, repeating "love is the law.... yeah.. mm". it looked a lot like REM's music video 'Bad day', it looked very much like a music video in general, often with the text to what was being said on the bottom.

My friends and I thought it was a good movie, probably the six minutes we spent the best that night.

Anolit is a movie about a troubled teenager spending time in the backseat of a BMW, or outside the grocery store after closing time, or at the gas station.

It was 25 well spent minutes, and some of the scenes were really cool and funny (the gas station).

Aksel Hennie did a really good job. The other actors had ok performances. After this movie three of them have played in big norwegian movies like Buddy, Johny Vang and Kvinnen i mitt liv.