Agent Hamilton: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter
(2012)
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Agent Hamilton: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter
(2012)
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Mikael Persbrandt | ... | ||
Saba Mubarak | ... |
Mouna Al Fathar
(as Seba Mubarak)
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Frida Hallgren | ... |
Ewa Tanguy
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Reuben Sallmander | ... | ||
Nadja Christiansson | ... |
Nathalie Tanguy
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Lennart Hjulström | ... | ||
Peter Eggers | ... |
Patrik Wärnstrand
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Steven Waddington | ... |
Oliver McCullen
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Cal MacAninch | ... |
Harold Finley
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John Light | ... |
Jason Fox
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Nigel Whitmey | ... |
Bruce Curtis
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Gustav Deinoff | ... |
Jacob Wolf
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Driss Roukhe | ... |
Arahan
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Milind Soman | ... |
Abdul-Rahman
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Sven Ahlström | ... |
Olof Cedervall
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Special agent Carl Hamilton is forced to play by his own rules when his goddaughter is kidnapped by terrorists, as he learns that he will get no help from the Swedish secret services.
I liked this Jan Guillau-novel when I read it two years ago, and as far as I remember this film follows the book quite OK. OtherS has written it doesn't, but except for using never technology and coffee machines, this is quite close.
I think Mikael Persbrandt is good as agent Hamilton, but the start if the film fails elegantly to engage me. Even when the little girl is kidnapped, the movie has managed to establish the needed sympathy. A film where one doesn't really route for the protagonists, will fail when it comes to be successful as a thriller. Here's a typical example of one.
A pity really, since I was looking forward to a ride like I had when reading the book. It looks like director Tobias Falk hasn't been up to the task of making this function, or maybe it's also the screenwriters faults. Less probable, since Stefan Thunberg has written the Wallanderfilms as well as the second outing of "The Hunters".
OK, but not much more.