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film or series?

posted 10 years ago by TheDoctorsMistress
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Personally I feel that this film would have been better as a TV series, like the other Danish show Dicte, where each book were stretched over two episodes.
I just watched the film, and though it was good, to me there wasn't much of a climax in the way other films have it. Or maybe it's just because I'm not used to watching crime films, I don't know.
Or it could have been made like BBC's Sherlock (and Wallander for that matter) as a 90 minute per episode show (after all that is approx the time the film was anyway, wasn't it?)

[–] wildfire160 10 years ago

I came here to find out the same thing i love the film...i think it could make a great series but as there making another film atm i will certainly be looking out for it

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[–] Nostra1 10 years ago

Had the same feeling about this movie. It felt more like a pilot for a TV series as the Q branch is set up and it did not stand out compared to crime shows on TV.

Also thought the Assad character was underdeveloped.

[–] robjla 10 years ago

I hope it becomes a series. I liked the movie, left me wanting more.

[–] gillettester 10 years ago

Well, it's not a TV series (I haven't seen the movie yet, but I've read the books), but the second movie is being made : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3140100/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2

This film is based on the second book in the Department Q series, The Pheasant Killers/The Absent One. If you want to read the books (which are dark, but quite funny due to Assad and Carl banter), check out the author's page on Amazon (Jussi Adler-Olsen). The fifth book is due to be published in the US in September (note: the titles are different in the UK as compared to the US releases).

[–] petegatt 10 years ago

I was thinking the same thing as most of you it felt more like a pilot to a TV series still liked it though

[–] svenrufus 10 years ago

The very first thing I said to my girlfriend when the film finished was "That was a 90 minute movie trailer for a TV show."

I thought it was great, I'd watch the tv show, but it wasn't cinema as such. Nor would I pay to see any more of these in the cinema. I actually got to see it in a free preview, which was great, thank you very much. But showing a TV programme in the cinema does not make it a film.

Well worth a watch, but it needs to be put on its place.

[–] PaulW-7 10 years ago

Couldn't agree more!!

[–] fouldrippings 10 years ago

You beat me to it.

Right at the start, I thought that there was some ambiguity as to who had actually done the the shooting, and that that would be important. It even looked for a minute as though we were watching the end, and that we would gradually come to realise what really happened.
Instead, the film was just a straight line and formulaic. Some good bits, but basically a plain TV crime series.

[–] lubin-freddy 9 years ago

My thoughts exactly.

A five or six part series (as in "The Fall") would have given us some background as to why a pressure chamber. Or how she was able to survive? Or more about the relationship between the two cops.

Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.