Operation Omerta

This was horribly directed and written, with a sloppy, bloated, incohesive and convoluted screenplay. Literally the entire two hour runtime could've been cut down to a 20 min short film and you would miss absolutely nothing. After about 20 mins, we were all struggling to stay awake and/or started playing with our phones. This film is 90% filler and 10% substance. There's a lot of nothing happening, and it's just repetitive and boring. I'm pretty sure the same scene of a helicopter flying into the city was copy and pasted multiple times. Was this bloated sloth even edited? The pacing was ridiculously slow and dragged out, just like pretty much every scene. It' a shame, because the cinematography was amazing, and the performances convincing for the most part. I just wish there was a real story here with some reason to care about the characters or the plot.

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.

This kind of films with these scripts just thinking its made by kids' 7 years old.

Just a package of rubbish, for a real fan of movies' it's a torture to watch.

If you love yourself a little bit, avoid this garbage.

Being a Scandinavian I try to watch the Scandinavian movies out there, but I seriously had a hard time not turning this one off quite a few times.

Inexperienced actors, silly gunhandling, stereotypic plot and the pace is so slow it should neither be considered action, nor a thriller.

There are some seriously dumb scenes in this movie, and I won't spoil them, but I wonder if the producer was out on his coffe break when those scenes were recorded.

There are som scenic shots of Stockholm, but that's about it.

There are way better Scandinavian movies out there so I'd recommend chosing another movie to watch.

It's funny when people read a good book they immediately think this would make a great movie. This is not a good movie

Lead actor plays the part of no nonsense Finnish tough guy. Which fits Pääkkönen rather well.

Seems that direction and production were too busy dreaming their vacation during the filming so results is a poor Hollywood ripoff.

It is clear that this is made for Finnish audience only with cameos from news readers and other people who very few foreigners know.

This means more for the fans of Ilkka Remes and Finns who might have wished for this to be their own super cop series as Remes has made at least 15 book that continue this story in a alternative Finland with various characters.