17-year-old Tanja is found murdered in the Norwegian town of Tromsø. Kripos police investigators Jonas Engström (Stellan Skarsgård) and Erik Vik are flown in to the Land of the Midnight Sun. The body has been washed clean. Jonas was in the Swedish police until he was caught in bed with a key witness. As they close in on the suspect, Engström accidentally kills his own partner Vik in the fog and then tries to cover it up. He is suffering from insomnia.
The continuous sunlight is a fascinating addition to the noir genre. The foggy shootout is filled with compelling tension. I do wish that the bullet and the gun is laid out more simply in one easy exposition. The investigating officer should have laid out all the evidence of the shootout. Was it a through and through? What's the caliber? Somebody needed to CSI that thing. I kept wondering about the situation of the investigation throughout the movie which left me a little perplex. Stellan Skarsgård brings a compelling paranoid disturbed presence. It's an artfully done thriller.
The continuous sunlight is a fascinating addition to the noir genre. The foggy shootout is filled with compelling tension. I do wish that the bullet and the gun is laid out more simply in one easy exposition. The investigating officer should have laid out all the evidence of the shootout. Was it a through and through? What's the caliber? Somebody needed to CSI that thing. I kept wondering about the situation of the investigation throughout the movie which left me a little perplex. Stellan Skarsgård brings a compelling paranoid disturbed presence. It's an artfully done thriller.