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AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

petarmatic I already reviewed this title but for some reason my first review did not pass. Let me try again.This is an excellent WWII film. There were many films made about this period, this one is focusing on the Danish resistance. We enjoyed excellent acting, interesting plot, good visual effects. If you are into WWII films I would strongly recommend that you obtain this film and watch it.Is plot realistic? It is hard to tell, Danish resistance was not very much talked about after WWII.I am glad that European film making is continuing and that it produces such a good films. I would like that Europe continues making films similar to this, very interesting and dynamic.

ptb-8 Thure Lindstrom has a star showcase in this violent dramatic film of Danish WW2 resistance and quite outshines more famous International co star Mads Mikkelson. FLAMMEN /CITRON is a 'passion/sour' title of love and death among an ever increasingly shifting set of hope and loyalties and duty and disappointments as a large group of resistance fighters try to undermine all Nazi activities in Denmark 1944, whilst avoiding German soldier suspicions, roadblocks and bullets. Then there is disloyalty and subterfuge suspicions and outright assassination. At times cruel and sad, tense and explicit, FLAMMEN/CITRON will not travel outside of Europe well and is bets suited to festivals. It has many visual and pacing similarities to the cretinous INGLORIOUS BASTERDS with long periods of dialog and short horrifying bursts of gunfire death. Possibly better as a TV miniseries FLAMMEN/CITRON makes a slow 130 minutes, held well by Lindstrom especially. Mads does his usual pout.

robert-temple-1 This is one of those Danish films which are attracting so much attention these days, and the actor Lars Mikkelsen who played Troels in season one of THE KILLING a year earlier (2007, see my review) even appears in it. It is a harrowing and ultimately sad tale, 'based on a true story'. It depicts the attempts by the Danish Resistance (all two of them, Flammen og Citronen) to struggle against the Nazi Occupation of Denmark. In that respect, it offers a view of a familiar subject in an unfamiliar setting, and is of considerable interest. The action is exciting but the film has a downbeat quality, because the Resistance keeps getting betrayed and whacked. The character called Flame has red hair, hence his nick-name, and is too brave to bother covering it up most of the time, though once in a while he is persuaded to wear a beret in the hope that at least his flame-red head will be a bit less obvious on his Resistance missions. He goes around murdering collaborators but is under strict orders not to murder Nazis themselves. It is a pity he didn't get more collaborators, but then there are always so many of such vermin whenever a country is occupied. There is a very pleasant large café where Flame and Citron and their friends foregather, with Nazi officers often sitting very near them. Considering how well known Flame was meant to be as a 'terrorist', I can't understand why he was never arrested in the café. But then that's the movies, I guess. The film is extremely well made, with a great deal of tension and suspense. The director, Ole Madsen, is highly talented. The performances by Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen as Flame and Citron are very good. Lindhardt has appeared in 57 titles despite his youth, and Mikkelsen in 41. We have to remember that all these Danish people who are largely unknown to us are really highly experienced pros in their field, and that Denmark has produced more than just the film director Carl Dreyer whose work we all know and love. Other people have made films there too since the silent days, and because we find it difficult to distinguish between Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes (they have no such problems distinguishing between each other, and indeed do nothing but grumble about one another the whole time and ridicule each other's accents), we have often not realized who was really a Dane. For instance, the director Henning Carlsen who filmed Knut Hamsun's HUNGER (1966) was not a Norwegian at all, but a Dane, strange as that may seem. (And Per Oscarsson the actor who played Hamsun was a Swede.) One day we may get all of our Scandinavians sorted out and differentiate between all their broad vowel sounds, pinpointing the origin of each. (Swedes seem to be the broadest, Danes the most clipped and they use '-sen' endings on names instead of '-son'.) But until that day comes, we should keep an eye on those Danes, because they seem to be up to things. And this Danish film is well worth watching.

jjnoahjames The first thing I noticed when watching Flame and Citron was the directing, more precisely the camera angels, and acting. The main character, Flame (played by Thure Lindhardt), looked awesome in almost every shot and his partner Citron (Mads Mikkelsen) did an amazing job acting as well. This movie has a lot of good life lessons, and moral warnings.I liked the fact that it was based on true events. This makes it possible to look at the movie from a more realistic point of view. Flame and Citron encourages one to question life and reason in general from a realistic view rather than question the movie it's self. This all in accordance with war time events of course, and resistance fighters.I looked into the history behind the movie and it's neat to know that they have statues built in Denmark to commemorate these brave underground soldiers.