The Trip

A slapstick, melodramatic, over the top, theatrical, comedy thriller bloodbath - knifing, shooting, strangling, drowning and mowing its way through so much flesh it would make Takeshi Miike proud.

The Trip, or in Norwegian: I onde dager ("For worse" in the "For better and for worse..") is a typical Tommy Wirkola movie, which means it's fun and bloody.

Wirkola has taken the trip back from Hollywood to make a piece with Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie, and it's a fun ride.

All actors impress in this wild and funny violent ride.

Lisa and Lars are unhappy. She's an actor, he's a director, and the happy days of marriage are over. So when holidays come, they plan to kill each other while staying in their mountain cabin. But things don't at all go as planned.

Not at all, for any of them, nor for the three escaped prisoners on the run which has turned up in their cabin.

This Movie from Start to Finish is on point, Acting is brilliant and the characterization is perfect.

The entertainment quotient is so high and there is not even a single dull moment in this 100mins Movie.

The Dark Humour and the Background score go so well together and this is the first time I laughed when blood went splattering all over in the movie.

At no point did I ever really know where this movie was going, and I appreciate that. There were a few funny moments, a lot of top notch gore, and decent acting.

The movie begins quite slow. For anyone who has seen the trailer - I kind of can imagine they might have issues with the pacing. You do expect this to be a bit over the top ... which it is, but much later on. And when it finally pulls out all the stops, it is quite the experience. Having said that, all the rewinding the movie does ... well it works the first time like a charm (even for most who have seen the trailer) ... but the second time it feels more like a cheat.

Now you can not be easily offended or faint of heart ... or having issues with blood and depictions of violence. Or quite the nasty humor if one likes to call it that. Nasty in an action kind of way. In a cut of something of someone else kind of way to be more exact. If you dig that ... go ahead and by all means cherish this ... especially the second half ... maybe rewrite the story yourself too ... no pun intended.

Up til then, you have to endure a bit of "build up" that could have been told a lot quicker and a lot shorter run time wise ... my 5 cents.