SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

paulclaassen Absolutely fantastic! So much more realistic than Hollywood disaster films, with more depth and emotion without being melodramatic! The acting, visuals and music are stunning. From beginning to end, there was never a dull moment. It literally grips you from the opening and never lets go.

adonis98-743-186503 Although anticipated, no one is really ready when the mountain pass above the scenic, narrow Norwegian fjord Geiranger collapses and creates an 85-meter high violent tsunami. A geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it. Bølgen (or also known as The Wave) suffers from an overstuffed plot and a mix of different genres like action, disaster and drama and to be honest i had more fun with films like Armageddon, Volcano and even Geostorm than this film. The perfomances were also not that good either and i didn't get invested with any of the leading characters or the others as a whole. Better skip it and see something else!!!

Aleksandar Sarkic Norwegian cinema is definitely on the rise and is by every day more and more popular in other countries and parts of the world. These movie i have watched on Serbian national TV. To this movie i have watched few Norwegian movies and all were great so i expected something good and different from Hollywood, even if the main story of the movie is natural catastrophe. First half of the movie is very good, it has some plot, some atmosphere and the acting by main character Kristoffer Joner is superb, and when catastrophe begin, everything becomes full of American clichés, especially the ending. It was painful to watch really. I really don't understand why every corner of the globe wants to be similar to Americans, i really didn't expect that especially from Norwegians. I hope that their movies will not be Americanized fully in the process.The Wave gets 5/10 from me.

candlemansa I loved the disaster movies of the 70's, 80's, from The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Poseidon Adventure, Cassandra Crossing to the 90's Dantes Peak, Twister, Deep Impact and Volcano. The Day after Tomorrow while okay began the downward spiral as effects took over from story telling and every plot line focused on a family divided while everyone else died around them. That became tiresome but more so because there was no connection with these families, they were secondary to effects. Plus situations that were impossible to survive suddenly were less so and you lost the audience to lots of eye rolling and sighing. 2012 and San Andreas been the two main culprits. The Wave strips everything back, yes we have a family at the center of the drama but enough time is given to them that we care what happens. The build up to the main disaster event is slow and ominous. When it happens you are on edge watching the horror envelope the characters. I have two gripes with the film, the first is more time should have been given to some of the secondary characters so that when they were killed the impact would have been felt more, (Star Trek red coat syndrome at work). Where the film begins to unravel a little is in the aftermath, ten minutes are given to a main character going back to the scene of devastation yet doesn't come across any other survivors or wounded. Had they just fleshed it out a little more it would have gotten 10 stars, the acting is top notch, the scenario is terrifying and the scenery is breathtaking. More character driven disaster movies like this are needed.