Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

ft-5 i'm glad there are a lot of other commentaries this frees me from telling too much about the story. it is about a postman who read the letters he's supposed to deliver and eventually even throws them away. suddenly he finds himself in the middle of a absurd and even a little dangerous story. but in my opinion just needs this story to talk about the relations between people. and what makes this movie so special is the fact that it actually not just shows pictures and sequences you've seen a hundred-times before.it really has, i can't put it differently, respect for its personal.this means that the persons keep their own personality for the whole absurd-tragic story of the movie.

Pittwater This is definitely one of the best contemporary Scandinavian films with all the hallmark of a top artistic production. All the characters are not without flaws and they are presented as anti-heroes. The movie has a grunge atmosphere and it is laced with humour and mockery. I can't really throw more light into this without creating too great an expectation for you except to say I really enjoyed it for pure entertainment. I like the quaint odd-ball filmmaking style created by Pål Sletaune. My question is: where is the DVD? Criterion people, are you listening?

raymond-15 This film depicts Oslo as a rather run-down city which, as far as I can remember, it is not; and as for the Norwegian Postal Service ...well that seems to be struggling along if we can judge by the unreliable antics of Roy (Robert Skjaerstad), one of the young postmen. He not only opens and reads private mail, but also lets himself into an apartment when he finds a key left in a mail-box. His exploration of the rooms leaves little time for delivering letters so he dumps the contents of his bag in a railway tunnel. The irony of the situation is that he is awarded a gold watch for bravery in attendance to his duties after being badly beaten up in the streets. The originality of the story is completely charming as it blends romance, suspense and comedy in which Roy seems to get involved at every turn. One scene I particularly like is the one in which a locomotive almost runs him down in the tunnel and scatters his letters high and wide like a flurry of snowflakes. It's just one of many quaint scenes. In another scene he is on the point of being gunned down in his own grungey apartment when nearby jackhammers reverberate throughout the whole building giving him the opportunity to make his get-away. There is a suspenseful moment when he slips an iron bar through the doorhandles of a public toilet imprisoning a frantic gunman. Unfortunately for Roy (always a loser it seems) his inscribed wrist watch falls off in his struggle and so the gunman is eventually able to trace his whereabouts. The film is short and sweet, well worth watching. It has a lot of originality in the script and the acting is first class. The film suggests we should look under our beds before retiring . One never knows who may be hiding there...particularly in Oslo.

JAH-5 The Norwegian movie, Budbringeren/Junk Mail, nearly got an Oscar. The movie has changed the Norwegian film culture totally. It's sarcasms and black humor are actually working well on most people. The thing with Junk Mail is that people either like it, or not. It's difficult to explain. Many people from other contries, would think of Oslo as a horrible city... well, It's not. Oslo is actually beautiful, well, most of it. The only problem with this movie is that they are showing the worst parts of Oslo (The film was made in a small part of Oslo east). It can make people from other contries think of Norway as a 'dirty' country... Please don't think that about Norway just because of a 'black' film. I do think that for an international movie, like this one, that they should have shot a few scenes in better parts of the city. If you already have been to Norway, Junk Mail probably would be funnier to watch...