Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Morten_5 Nordic noir. This Danish-Swedish-Norwegian-German co-production is a fine example of the now world-famous genre phenomenon.Of course, many of the familiar genre traits are present, but it is a well-crafted and well- acted film. Based on the novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen and adapted by now-rising screenwriter Nikolaj Arcel, the film is shot by skilled cinematographer Eric Kress and contains some atmospheric music by composers Johan Söderqvist, Uno Helmersson and Patrik Andrén. Danish Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Swedish Fares Fares also work well together as the detective duo.

Tweekums As this Danish drama opens three policemen are preparing to raid a property; they go in and moments later one of them is dead the others seriously injured… one of them permanently crippled. The third Carl Mørck returns to work six months later… he hoped to return to the homicide unit but instead he finds himself heading the new 'Department Q'; it sounds intriguing but it is just a small department that will be dedicated to formally closing various cold cases. He is not expected to do any investigation; just tie up loose ends and declare the cases closed. When he gets there he finds his assistant, Assad, has selected a few possible first cases. The case of a female politician who went missing while on a ferry catches his eye. It is believed that she committed suicide by jumping overboard but the evidence doesn't feel right; she had been travelling with her mentally disabled brother and witnesses suggested that she had been trying to find him just before she disappeared… hardly the behaviour of somebody preparing to kill themselves. Carl and Assad start to look deeper trying to find men she may have been involved with and even going to Sweden to follow a lead. This does not impress his boss. Meanwhile we are shown what actually happened to the woman; she was kidnapped and placed in a hyperbaric chamber by an unknown captor who increases the pressure each year and doesn't talk to her in the intervening time and supplying her needs through a hatch. Ultimately he shows himself and states that the next time she sees him he will kill her… will Carl and Assad unravel the case and get to her in time or is it already too late?.This dark thriller starts well with a shocking opening that serves to show us why our protagonist has been given his non-job in Department Q and also his less than happy demeanour. Nikolaj Lie Kaas does a fine job as Carl Mørck and Fares Fares contrasts nicely as the much happier Assad. The case they undertake is both interesting and disturbing; what happens to kidnap victim Merete Lynggaard is unsettling to say the least; the thought of being kept in total isolation with nothing to do for years his horrifying to consider… and that is before we see how she has to deal with toothache! Sonja Richter does a great job convincing us that her character is really undergoing horrific treatment. The ending does require some suspension of disbelief as Carl and Assad close in on the kidnapper just as his five year plan to torment then kill Merete is coming to a close. We also get one of the oldest clichés of the genre; cops solving the case after they have been suspended from duty. These minor details can be easily forgiven though as the story is so gripping. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of Scandi-Noir.These comments are based on watching the film in Danish with English subtitles.

Anderson Santos The point that I should start is the official title, "The girl in the cage", I prefer by far the worldwide title since it focus more on the protagonist (has an off-topic: the Italian title makes it sound like a documentary). If you like the old drama/mystery/crime movies like I do, you will love this one, doesn't add really nothing to the gender, but it's so well produced and the acting was on point, got to love when you see an actor, Nikolaj L. Kaas in this case, waking up in a realistic way, the mood of the whole movie brings you to that slow passing detective drama, rare in our days, with all the CSI around, and ends up with a very thrilling ending.TL;dr - Noir nordish mood crime/drama

dipesh parmar Scandinavian TV, film and literature has been a remarkable phenomenon over the past decade, with the wordwide success of 'The Killing', 'Let The Right One In' and 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'. 'The Keeper of Lost Causes', based on an international bestseller written by Jussi Adler-Olsen, is a new Danish film in the same gritty noir crime thriller mould that many viewers have become accustomed to.Nikolaj Lie Kaas plays Carl Mørck, an arrogant and cantankerous homocide detective who nobody wants to work with even though he's good at his job. After a botched raid puts himself and his partner in hospital, Carl is demoted to a desk job handling old cases which were never resolved. Carl's job was to check each file and report on each case, but to never go beyond this remit. His life might be a mess, but Carl never played by the rules so why should he start now? He chooses a curious missing persons case which was tagged as a suicide. He's ably assisted by the far more optimistic Assad (Fares Fares), and thus begins a peculiarly Nordic bromance dead set on fighting crime.Director Mikkel Nørgaard spares no expense in showing us every crime thriller cliché available, saved not only by the two leads but the inventive means used by the captor for his victim. Far too many leaps of faith have to be taken to understand Carl's process of elimination, in what is a very straightforward thriller that lacks any real tension or plot twists. 'The Keeper of Lost Causes' often feels like a TV pilot, and the ending of the film surely means there is more to come. For anyone familiar with the Nordic Noir Wave with classic TV series such as 'The Killing', 'Wallander' and 'The Bridge', 'The Keeper of Lost Causes' will probably be a disappointment. For the rest, this film is a good introduction to a particular genre that the Scandinavians do so well.