Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

aarongastelum If you ever saw and liked Yorgos Lanthimos's film The Lobster (2015) then you will love The Bothersome Man. As both films create their own world, makes you think just about everything, and have a really unique way of involving comedy. Should you see it? watch the trailer on Youtube to find out.

maurice yacowar Jens Lien's dystopian dream is as Kafkaesque a film as I can recall. The solitary hero Andreas moves through an inexplicable world, sterile, corporate, irrational, and his physical suffering — a lopped off finger, several run-overs by the subway — disappear magically. The urban landscape is grey, concrete, a world stripped of taste, colour, smell, any sensual engagement. The sex is easy but empty. He assumes ardor where there is only bemusement. He has an easy success at work as well as with women, nice office, sports car, nice flat, easy affairs. But his dissatisfaction reawakens when he remembers sensations, when he misses children. The corporate and Ikea-furnishing city is a kind of penal colony. Escape is impossible. When he digs a tunnel into a colourful kitchen in the outside world, he's dragged back with but a mouthful of Danish."Everyone here is happy," he is admonished, before he is brutally carried out and dumped into the more problematic but enlivening reality.The opening shot is of a couple in a subway station kissing ravenously. Andreas watches them, unsettled not so much by their passion — we will later deduce — but by their disengagement. Their mouths work as if sucking out lobster but their eyes keep springing open as if even that pretence at passion can't make them feel alive. The film excoriates the welfare state which provides the basics in a deadeningly easy way but stifles individual assertion.

albertoveronese The subject matter of Jens Lien's "The Bothersome Man" is clear: we ought to live on as brainwashed citizens even after death. So what if the director himself abide such a Hades? Someone was singing years ago – Where do the children play? Let's admit it, "Den brysomme mannen" is a dull pettiness of banality both in its production and its directional joke – What other joke could bring a film to life? Let them eat cake! Few are the eyes able to see the horror of the current filmmaking environment, the forced subjugation and cultural extermination of the current social and economic arrangements. Who are those who make movies today? Do children play anymore? For someone who's able to love would it be possible for him to pay for love? Watch out, you are trained to life as dogs to walk.

alexeykorovin Enjoyable movie, well worth watching. The good: 1) dry humor which is quite fresh after all those Hollywood comedies 2) many hilarious moments, I was laughing thru most of the movie 3) the violent scenes were absolutely amazing, especially the one where the street cleaners were trying to take off the corpse from the spiked fence 4) lots of details which make it very believable. Although I live in Germany and not in Norway, the co-workers of the main character where very similar to the typical officer workers you find in Germany The bad: 1) the movie is too long, many static scenes. You have already understood what the author wanted to say, but the scene stays there for 10 seconds more. Such seconds add up to minutes and you get a film 2-3 times longer than it should have been 2) the ending was a disappointment. It looked as if the movie was just cut at some point, since there was no finale, no conclusion and no twist or anything interesting at the end 3) actually the idea of criticizing the middle class is very old, so the film brings really nothing new, even though it's still entertaining 4) at some places the satire was just too absurd to even be funny, e.g. the scene where the main character stands fully covered in blood and his girlfriend talks about the weekend