2014 · crime · comedy · thriller
In Order of Disappearance
Directed by Hans Petter Moland1h 55m2014
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”
Our read: In Order of Disappearance (2014) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive crime · comedy · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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