Fresh
A polished and large-scale production with some rousing action sequences, the movie is certainly watchable, though no one's going to call this exciting filmmaking.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Max Manus: Man of War
2008 · 1h 58m · Not Rated
Action, Crime, History, War
Directed by
Joachim Rønning
,
Espen Sandberg
Overview
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
Director and cast
- Joachim Rønning Director
- Espen Sandberg Director
- Aksel Hennie as Max Manus
- Agnes Kittelsen as Ida Nikoline 'Tikken' Lindebrække
- Nicolai Cleve Broch as Gregers Gram
- Knut Joner as Gunnar Sønsteby
- Christian Rubeck as Kolbein Lauring
- Viktoria Winge as Solveig Johnsrud
- Kyrre Haugen Sydness as Jens Christian Hauge
- Eirik Evjen as Sigurd Jacobsen
- Jakob Oftebro as Lars Emil Erichsen
- Pål Sverre Hagen as Roy Nilsen
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
79%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The film celebrates Max's fierce patriotism, but doesn't blink at the toll his heroics took.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
Has an old-fashioned sincerity that entertains without engaging.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh
The destruction in Max Manus is elaborately staged by co-directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Roenning...
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Rotten
Basically a slice of formulaic Hollywood-style mythmaking, writ large and woefully empty.
Nick Schager, Time Out New York
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