NOKAS (2010)

I have recently watched Nokas , as it is supposed to be about a robbery that really took place in Norway,and it was meant to have a believable script and a real life feeling to it.I love and hate the movie and here's my motives : the characters have no substance, it is difficult to tell who's who and many of the actors involved have no purpose to explain the story. The director takes the viewers attention in a roller-coaster of good and bad scenes but the scenes do not add up or reveal the center point of the story and leaves the viewer frustrated waiting for something to happen. It seems as if the one planning the robbery was a total idiot and no one of the thieves knew what they were supposed to do ,and the cops as well seem like a bunch of freshmen on their first day on the job. What i loved about the movie was the fear that felt real between the bank employees,the arson of the truck,the fact that failure can occur anytime, not like in American movies where everything goes right the first time.Also the break into the bank was very well directed but i felt that a large part of the story is missing, and the movie ends abruptlyI recommend the movie only if you attending director/actor classes and want a point of reference

I consider myself a die hard heist movie lover, and this film is, for me, one of the best ever made. And I know what I am talking about. I have watched thousand of them in my life, since the early seventies. This movie is based on actual events. It's a sort of mixup between semi documentary and classic film. The tale of a large group of professional robbers fully equipped as a SWAT team, who pull a mammoth bank heist right in the middle of a major town. I was astonished by the pace, filming, editing and acting of this fantastic action, thriller and crime flick. Of course, there is not study of characters here. But I don't care. You're literally stuck to your seat from the beginning to the very end. A very realistc story, that the Hollywood studios would not have made in such a way. Maybe not worse, but just different...I put it at the same scale as HEAT.I am also surprised that the robbers did not use explosives to blast the bulletproof bank window, or the vault armored fence, that prevented them to take the tons of bank notes we saw at the beginning of the films, with the bank clerks talking about their private lives just around, as if they were in a bakery...

There should be a -10 rating too!This movie was really bad. Even if the police and the gang doing the bank job acted like in this movie (which i doubt) - it is among the worst movies I've seen in a very long time.And for the acting - also a -10. I think high-school kids I know could have made this movie much better.So many ridiculous things happening, story, time - line.I have really not a difficult time even not getting all upset by all the flaws in here.Not even worth seeing for the flaws - is it a joke??? Redo - remake, or don't do at all !!! Is this movie just a bad joke???

Director Erik Skjoldbjærg (Insomnia, Prozac Nation) comes back with a stunning, high-intensity mix between art-house and heist movie - and thus redefines the genre. Based on real events, the film is a multi-plot run-through of the hours before and the first 25 minutes into Norway's most spectacular robbery (Easter 2004).The movie has echoes of both Gus Van Sant's Elephant and United 93, and the final shootout bears resemblance to the corresponding scene in Heat, although this time it's "for real".The Nokas robbery was already highly mythologized in Norwegian media, and I was very eager to see how the movie related to those myths. Which it didn't at all - and thereby contrasts the media circus around the event. A very sober and intelligent approach.Nokas works remarkably well with its low-key, hand-held presence. The nerve of the event grabs you from the beginning, and carries you through to the brilliant last shot, where the true human impact of the event is felt through the eyes of a bus driver who, against his will, was drawn into the event.