raymond-15 This film depicts Oslo as a rather run-down city which, as far as I can remember, it is not; and as for the Norwegian Postal Service ...well that seems to be struggling along if we can judge by the unreliable antics of Roy (Robert Skjaerstad), one of the young postmen. He not only opens and reads private mail, but also lets himself into an apartment when he finds a key left in a mail-box. His exploration of the rooms leaves little time for delivering letters so he dumps the contents of his bag in a railway tunnel. The irony of the situation is that he is awarded a gold watch for bravery in attendance to his duties after being badly beaten up in the streets. The originality of the story is completely charming as it blends romance, suspense and comedy in which Roy seems to get involved at every turn. One scene I particularly like is the one in which a locomotive almost runs him down in the tunnel and scatters his letters high and wide like a flurry of snowflakes. It's just one of many quaint scenes. In another scene he is on the point of being gunned down in his own grungey apartment when nearby jackhammers reverberate throughout the whole building giving him the opportunity to make his get-away. There is a suspenseful moment when he slips an iron bar through the doorhandles of a public toilet imprisoning a frantic gunman. Unfortunately for Roy (always a loser it seems) his inscribed wrist watch falls off in his struggle and so the gunman is eventually able to trace his whereabouts. The film is short and sweet, well worth watching. It has a lot of originality in the script and the acting is first class. The film suggests we should look under our beds before retiring . One never knows who may be hiding there...particularly in Oslo.

TucknDar A brilliant movie by Pal Sletaune! It's probably the "greyest" film I've ever seen. Disgusting in one way, but that only makes it greater. In my opinion the best Norwegian film ever, and it is absolutely worth watching. But like most movies, it is best in its original language, so people who doesn't speak Norwegian won't have the same experience, I guess... But it's still worth watching because of the depressing mood in it(!).

pugdad Doesn't anyone in Norway take a bath regularly is all I could think of during most of the viewing of this misguided effort. The film wanders so much that the viewer begins to think that they are making it up as they go along. The characters are never clearly developed, and their relationships are even less understood. Story? There really is none. This is truly an amateur effort. It will now be difficult for me to avoid films from Norway in the future.

JAH-5 The Norwegian movie, Budbringeren/Junk Mail, nearly got an Oscar. The movie has changed the Norwegian film culture totally. It's sarcasms and black humor are actually working well on most people. The thing with Junk Mail is that people either like it, or not. It's difficult to explain. Many people from other contries, would think of Oslo as a horrible city... well, It's not. Oslo is actually beautiful, well, most of it. The only problem with this movie is that they are showing the worst parts of Oslo (The film was made in a small part of Oslo east). It can make people from other contries think of Norway as a 'dirty' country... Please don't think that about Norway just because of a 'black' film. I do think that for an international movie, like this one, that they should have shot a few scenes in better parts of the city. If you already have been to Norway, Junk Mail probably would be funnier to watch...