Lalpera

I was not that keen to click this movie tab first, but nevertheless I wanted to give it a go and man....!! One of the best movies I've watched ever! It is so engrossing in your mind that you simply not able to forget the scenes for a loooong while. Performances by Peter Mullen, Gerard Butler, and Conner Swindells are the best I've seen not only in a small cast movie but in any movie for a while. Technically the whole movie is confined to just one landscape and three characters (plus 2 others for a brief appearance) in the whole movie for 1:47 hours and you feel time never flies! You'd never feel that you are watching a movie about 3 people in one of the furthest remote lands on earth because the story and narratives are so interconnected to the land they are in! Acting of all three major characters are so natural and deliberate, particularly of Mullen and Butler. I am not going to spoil anything here, I strongly advise you to watch it but be aware that it is so engrossing and demanding. Just like the life of Robinson Crusoe but similar to the movie 'The light between Oceans'. Peter Mullen as Thomas and Gerard Butler as James doing a fantastic job, the best for their characters and Conner Swindells as Donald so very closer to them. Director Kristoffer Nyholm has shown exemplary talent making this movie with so much close up shots to elaborate the human feelings and emotions and steer it with passionate dialogues. A real gem of a movie to watch!

I hardly see good mystery plots on the screen these days. This movie is one of them, quite complex, got multiple plots knitted into a strong, single thread. There are couple of scattered mini plots to start with, but David and Konopka cleverly weave them in to a seamless story in the end. Undoubtedly the most outstanding feature of the movie is the excellent acting by the leading actors. Specifically, Damiecki, Grochwska, Milkowski and Filus are near faultless, doing the best justice to their relevant characters. They truly live in their characters. You will also note the outstanding cinematography is one of the best we got in a while. Using lavish number of drone shots is quite smart to paint the bird's eye perspective to the plot, complemented by equally good background scores. There are few downsides as well. Some events are not really plausible. Why did Pawel confess stealing money from the Trust knowing that he will go to jail and his only daughter left with nobody? No dad will do that kind of stupid thing for sure! And the connection of Ming to Artur etc., And some prolonged scenes could be a bit boring and better left shorter. Its a dark one, intensive, sometimes torturing but quite admirable and I was glued to the screen till the end ....... and beyond. It is still haunting in my memory.