Ambush

Starring Peter Franzén, Irina Björklund, Kari Heiskanen, Taisto Reimaluoto, Kari Väänänen, Tommi Eronen, Pekka Heikkinen, and Pekka Huotari

MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Nordisk Film
War
123 minutes | Color
Finland
Released In Theaters April 5, 2002

A drama set on the Finland-Russia border during World War II.

WRITTEN BY
Olli Saarela
Antti Tuuri (also novel)

DIRECTED BY
Olli Saarela

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

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Critic Reviews

70	Variety Gunnar Rehlin Thoughtful and mostly very watchable picture, with its emphasis on how war dehumanizes the individual soldier.
70	New Times (L.A.) Beautifully shot and finely acted movie.
50	LA Weekly Director Olli Saarela, who co-wrote the script with Antti Tuuri, offers up a trembling romanticism that gradually hardens -- like Eero's consciousness -- with exposure to the horrors of war.

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