Although the film started out pretty ok then, at some parts, the acting was really mechanical (e.g. At the beginning I thought the character of Anya was either played by a humanoid robot or was computer simulated... it was eerily caricature... like a glitch in the film, like somebody from a neighouring movie set stopped by, straight out of a bad sci-fi movie...
Anyway, I think what went terribly wrong with this film was that the actors were made to speak a foreign language that most of them weren't particularly good at. Of course it is going to affect their performance! If it's a Finnish film, why not let the actors act in their mother tongue? I think it would have made a world of difference... It's weird if characters from Finland are talking to each other in English... cause IRL they never would. This film was like getting a massage when the masseuse is wearing gloves... kind of there, but, kind of, also NOT.
I think there was only one believable character in the film, that was Titov, the Belarussian mobster/villain (but that actor is also not from Finland), who mastered English with a Russian accent pretty well (but he had an advantage - he didn't have to sound good in English. Also, his acting had kind of a rough street cred, I enjoyed it very much. If it weren't for that character, I'd have given this film 3 stars, no more.
The set that was supposed to be in Tenerife... hmm... I could almost swear I recognized a beach in Estonia... the colour of the sea certainly points to that as well, and an old yellow swing set from Soviet era... maybe also Latvia or Lihtuania... I will eat my hat if it was really Tenerife.
I think that overall, the plot was pretty ok, except for maybe the last quarter of the film (why just tie up all those "loose ends" - so unnecessary). The execution of the film was, like, really bad, however. Mainly, I guess, due to a lot of rushing through the film shoots and a low budget, probably. So, for anyone not from Finland or Estonia or any other countries wherever the actors came from (and therefore would like to cheer on for their fellow courtymen) - please, don't waste your time... there are a million other such action movie-ish thingies out there that are a whole lot better.
