Special Agent Matti
While Denmark's only gifts to the world have been Kronenberg and legal pornography, you have to wonder why Shakespeare set Hamlet in that rotten state. Perhaps they're so in-bred that weird goings-on and general Satan worshipping are all in a day's work.
The kingdom 2 was mostly understandable even though I haven't seen part 1. It's a two-part five-hour journey through soap opera hospital hell. It's as black as the ace of spades, as funny as Friday the 13th and as addictive as The days of our bold and restless lives. Think Eraserhead meets ER then add a couple of psychic differently-abled dishwashers.
Like any good piss-take, this film takes the piss out of soaps while using the same tricks of the trade to lure you in. Before you know it you'll be laughing at the Swedish and all their greatest accomplishments (ABBA, Ikea, Volvo - the list just goes on and on and on...), checking the toilet for floaters or sinkers, and definitely not going to hospital.
The kingdom 2 is a must-see for young, arty-wanky filmgoers (like me), old people who are no longer young but still go to arty-wanky films, and people who get off on serious weird shit.
MA 15+ (Adult themes, horror themes)
28 January 1999 - 10 February 1999