Fantastic!

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Michael Noer's 'film 'Northwest' tells the story of a couple of petty criminals in Denmark, who make the mistake of getting into more serious crime than they had perhaps intended. The aesthetic is very similar to one of the sub-plots in the recent television series 'Follow the Money', although without that drama's ludicrous plot. The story is quite convincing, but what's absent is the air of redeeming tenderness that a director such as Ken Loach might have brought to this subject matter: the protagonists are not particularly likable even at the start of their unfortunate journey, not clearly nicer than those who threaten them. The ambiguity of the ending seems wrong as well, nothing is added (and something is missed) with the decision to end the story at what should be its point of climax.

This must be my first Danish movie or at least the first one that I remember. And it was a good one. I would have scored it an eight if it was not for the end that I thought was a bit disappointing. Well at least that's my point of view. It can be totally different for someone else. The story is well written and very easy to follow, even when you have to read subtitles. It's entertaining to watch with excellent acting from Gustav Dyekjær Giese. He plays with his brother Oscar Dyekjær Giese that has a slightly lesser important role but they both did a good job. This crime/drama tells the story of lost youth in Copenhagen, that kill their time with burglary, smoking joints and than evolve to more hardcore crime jobs. It's all filmed very well with good actors and it's pleasant to follow. Good movie.

'Nordvest' is a Danish film about a young criminal. Casper is a house burglar who sells what he steals to an Arab gang. But when one of the Arabs steals Casper's watch, Casper - completely missing the irony that he himself had stolen the watch in the first place - starts working for a rival gang, eventually getting his younger (and dimmer) brother involved also.So far, so predictable - and the film largely is, even down to Casper's tender relationship with his toddler sister - hey, he's a thug with a heart! But a thug is still a thug and so it is difficult to feel any sympathy for him as events spiral beyond his control. In the lead role, Gustav Dyekjær Giese does a nice line in cool, and the film is definitely worth watching once - but only once.

I saw this at Pifan 2013 in Bucheon, South Korea, and while I've seen several Danish movies that were so-so to lackluster, this one was entertaining. Caspar is a young man who has a single mother and two siblings in Copenhagen. He burglarizes homes and sells the stuff he steals to an Arab thug, Jamal, who cheats him all the time. Caspar is later offered a job with a pimp named Bjorn and starts to earn good money. But Jamal is angry that Caspar is working for someone else and seeks revenge.The movie was interesting and the characters seemed real, though I don't know much about Denmark. I'd say this was worth a watch, though the ending seemed a bit flat.