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The Worst Film Ever

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It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

At first glance, you might think the Johan Falk series was some sort of libertarian fantasy--intrepid lone hero breaks all the petty rules of society to struggle against titanic forces of evil. But of course it's just the opposite--John Falk is slick propaganda for a police state.Why does Johan have to be the lone hero in the first place? Because the powers of law and order are hobbled by all those silly rules of due process and civil liberties, and the only answer (as the stories repeatedly assert) must be a huge increase in the surveillance, regulatory, and policing power of the state. Take that, Ayn Rand! To be sure, the shows are extremely well made, with lots of action, fancy houses, and hot actors. And also lots of hokum about the takeover of Europe by criminal forces, which will justify our only salvation, a total police state. (Do not even whisper the word "Fascism," or Johan will ridicule you as politically correct eunuch.) I hear this is Dick Cheney's favorite show. He probably watches it on his local state-funded "liberal" PBS station.

In The Hague, Holland, the new chief of Europol Sellberg (Lennart Hjulström) broadcasts a tough speech against the third wave of crimes in Europe, promising to suffocate the schemes of powerful criminals. He invites his former detective and friend Johan Falk (Jakob Eklund) for a meeting, with the intention to join him to his team. Meanwhile, the executive Rebecca (Irina Björklund) accidentally opens one correspondence of her mate, Kane (Ben Pullen), and finds that he cleans illegal money for European mobsters. When she decides to disclose her discoveries to Europol, his life is jeopardized by the associates of her boy-friend, but Rebecca is rescued by Johan. They have to fight against the organized crime to save their lives and Johan's family.I decided to watch "Den Tredje Vågen" on video to kill time in the rainy Saturday's afternoon in Rio de Janeiro. I love European movies, but due to the lack of tradition in the action genre, I had minor expectation with this film. However, this movie is a surprisingly good Swedish-British thriller, full of action and usual exaggeration of the Hollywood films. The absolutely unknown cast has great performances, the Swedish Irina Björklund is very gorgeous and "Den Tredje Vågen" is an excellent entertainment. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Garras da Corrupção" ("Claws of the Corruption")

Absolutely better than Noll Tollerans and Livvakterna (swedish). This movie is very exiting and has a lot of action in it, witch is quite uncommon in swedish films. The actors/actresses is very good and the ending is very unexpected. See it today!

Ok I'm a bit biased but the movie rules. I worked on the movie when it filmed in the towns of Trollhättan and Vanersborg. Not that you'd recognise it though. The viewer will see it as Germany and red light districts. Joakim and Anders deserve alot of credit for the long nights of filming and Jakob is a great guy.As far as the movie goes what can I say. Check out the excellent smoke I was responsible for (Hehehehehe ego ego ego ego ego ego). It's an action movie, full of guns chases and other stuff, all professionally done.Check out Livvakterna too for some EXCELLENT car-chases.