frukuk A great performance -- believable and restrained -- by Stellan Skarsgard, but after an hour the whole film started to drag. If they'd toned down some of the farcical humour and cut 30 to 40 minutes, it would have packed much more of an emotional punch.

blanche-2 Stellan Skarsgård stars in "In Order of Disappearance," a Norwegian film from 2014.In the middle of this, I started thinking of the John Carpenter film "Christine" about that evil car. This was a bit like Christine the Snowblower.Nils (Skarsgard) is a quiet man who plows snow - and does he ever, in this massive machine - in the winter mountains of Norway. He is highly thought of and recently won a Citizen of the Year Award. When his son is murdered for something he did not do, Nils sets out to get revenge. The situation becomes complicated as Albanian monsters are also after the man responsible for the death - a health-nut drug dealer called "The Count" who has a young son - and both Nils and the Albanians have the same idea of how to get to him. Plus, due to mistaken identity, tragedy strikes for Nils yet again.Violent and bloody film with touches of Tarantino and the Cohn Brothers' Fargo's dark humor. Skarsgard is wonderful as always. And the scenery - well, there is an awful lot of snow but it's quite beautiful.I liked it, and I look forward to "A Somewhat Gentle Man" from this director. By the way, the original title in Norwegian means Power Idiots. I suppose you could say that.

MartinHafer "In Order of Disappearance" is NOT a film for everyone. In some ways, I'd categorize it as 'Murder Porn'...a movie with many, many vivid and brutal killings...like a Tarantino or Guy Ritchie movie. And, like one of these incredibly carnage-filled movies, it's also exceptionally well made. But being well made does not mean it's for everyone....it is a really nasty story of revenge.When the film begins, two guys are abducted and one is murdered. The other escapes and eventually makes it to see Nils Dickman--the father of the dead man. It seems that the guy who got away was involved with drug dealers but Dickman's son was completely innocent. Well, Nils isn't about to let go and has decided he must have justice--even though he's just one man against a gang of vicious drug dealers. It's funny, as Nils was just awarded a Man of the Year award...and now he's about to become a vicious killing machine. Nils only has one lead and soon abducts this lead. He savagely beats and then murders the gang member after he learns the next one in the chain of command and does the same once again. After Nils kills his third gang member, the gangs take notice...and think it's a rival Serbian gang behind all this. Soon, it's all out war...and bodies are piling up faster than the audience can keep track of them. This film is exquisitely directed and realistic to boot. But it's also blood-filled and violent...and I am talking about very realistic and hideous killings. I was actually surprised, as I just assumed Americans and Brits were the only ones making these sort of films! Well made...but please, please, please...DON'T let your kids, mother or Father O'Reilly catch you watching this film!

altereggonyc Possibly movies with subtitles are taken more seriously, even when they have very little to offer. If this movie featured English-speaking characters like Vin Diesel, Liam Neeson or Bruce Willis wiping out bad guys one by one, with little dialogue or nuance, it would have been deservedly panned or ignored. Yet people treat this mindless film like some sort of Indie art-house film. There are one or two minor flourishes, e.g. flashing a cross on the screen whenever a bad guy dies, but the movie is pretty much a straightforward revenge movie that makes Dirty Harry movies seem subtle. It is all too easy for the vengeful father in this film, an ordinary citizen, to find and dispatch career criminals. There is one scene in which bad guys banter about the welfare state, but that's hardly enough to justify comparisons to Quentin Tarantino. On the whole, the script is so simpleminded, you won't even need to read the subtitles to follow the action. I love Scandinavian crime fiction and film generally, but this Norwegian film is a rare exception.