It's all relatively effective and the storytelling aspect makes for a neat device with which to present the plot, but ultimately the film has a few hurdles it never quite overcomes. First off, whenever the actors speak English, the acting plummets. I don't know if this is because they're poor actors and I just don't know bad Danish acting when I hear it, or if it's just much harder to act in a second or third language. Neither would surprise me. (I've seen this before. Check out Jet Li in Romeo Must Die. In his one scene speaking Mandarin, he's suddenly Olivier.) Secondly, the plot, engaging as it is, never really congeals and the "twist" placed at the end seems just silly rather than clever.

A third problem, which plagues this sort of fare in general, is that it's a very fine line between being charmingly low budget and charmlessly low budget. This shoots about 50/50. Finally, and this may just be me, but the film comes off as a little racist. That is to say, of the three Pakistani characters in the film, and they are major characters, all are unrelenting douchebags. And not in the way that all characters in a crime story are douchebags. No, these are the really reprehensible bad guys in the room full of bad guys. I don't know if that's intentional and I'd like to think it's not, but at the very least it's distracting, and that's not what you want to be thinking about during a shoot 'em up.

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