1. DamienB

   10

   Rich, satisfying and complex on so many thematic and narrative levels. Loved it!

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2. ShowCritic

   9

   A great foreign film the subtitling was good to follow. a great true story of the nazis and the people who fought them in Denmark Mads Mikkelsen is brilliant!… Expand

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3. ElizabethR

   9

   Totally absorbing but sometimes confusing...

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4. Nesbitt10

   8

   An authentic, richly-detailed political thriller that powerfully captures an overlooked piece of history--the resistance to the Nazi occupation in Denmark. The anti-"Inglourious Basterds''- a story about heroic Nazi-killers in which heroism itself sinks under bewildering crosscurrents of motive and uncertainty. Breathtaking cinematography with style to spare--accompanied with an engaging fact based storyline leads to a extraordinarily well-done film directed by Ole Christian Madson. However and collectively, this film isn't about Nazis or the Danish resistance per say--or the things people did to survive--it's about romancing these heroic figures in spectacular style. The setting is in Copenhagen near the end of the Nazi occupation, and D-Day is fast approaching when the movie begins. Flammen (Thure Lindhardt) and Citronen (Mads Mikkelsen) are unlikely partners in the resistance. The former is a flame-haired youngster who kills without reservation, (except for women)--while the older is the driver, who never has taken a life, and is torn between his wife and daughter. and his "cause." Flame and Citron are assassins in a underground organization eliminating danish citizens who have embraced the occupation and joined German forces. Flame and Citron are concerned with the bureaucracy of organized violent resistance an interesting angle. The two heroes would prefer to be freelancers, but they have orders and they must follow. Their situation becomes more desperate and dangerous for the increasingly isolated pair when a traitor was suspected in the ranks of the resistance when several of its members end up dead. Knowing whom to trust becomes impossible when their mission is now in question. The movie often feels more like film noir than a war picture both in the way it is shot and in the manner in which the characters are portrayed. Flame and Citron lurk in the shadows and corridors--Tommy guns are emptied into motor cars as well as their occupants with flair. "Flame and Citron'' is torn between honoring and subverting the rules of the WWII resistance genre, and it insists on seeing the two leads as heroes--even as events spiral downward beyond their control. The anti-Nazi righteousness we crave from our movie devolves into paranoia, wrongful death, and a bleak landscape in which allegiances can never be pinned down. The script (based on actual events) by Madsen and Lars Andersen, wades right into the ambiguity of wartime morals and self-deceit. "Flame Citron" reminds us that assassins like these may have earned a heroic status for their cause and actions, but they also killed innocents along the way. Though the material might lend itself to heavy-handedness, director Ole Christian Madsen is steady, and he gets fine performances from the two leads. Beyond that is a drop-dead gorgeous period noir, rife with paranoia, femmes fatales, and good men inexorably sinking into the bloody mire and opaque texture of life (and death) during wartime. Resistance isn't futile, but it does come with its own terrible cost.… Expand

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