Baltic Storm (2003)

Oh dear oh dear. What a mess. The plot is good. The docufiction reference frame is good. The actors are top notch professionals. But the directing is pure amateur night.The music score is as ridiculous as the direction, specially in the scene changes were laughable cutover fanfares reminds you of b-movies from the fifties.(minor spoiler) The worst scene must be the Russian soldier getting an amateur fit and stalking like a zombie into the woods having a shootout with a laughably inept hit-man. When he is finally shot he makes a jump backwards himself to simulate the popular film cliché of being thrusted backwards by bullets. What a farce.I am amazed that the great actors like Jürgen Prochnow and Donald Sutherland did not file a lawsuit against the release of this bomb. Listing all the inept scenes would make a list as long as the script. The direction is so inept that Ed Wood would have cringed.

Clossius says that "Baltic Storm" is banned in Sweden. That is not correct! Instead you can buy the film almost everywhere, like in gas stations, shopping malls, internet (of course) and so on. Often to a very low price because this movie is so BAD and nobody wants to see it, despite all the tricks to keep up the interest. The movie only appeals to conspiracy theorists, psychos and other persons living in la-la-land and those who "knows the truth". Working on a museum with the Estonia disaster as a theme I have meet them all! I have heard about every theory that exists like cocaine-smuggling, weapon-smuggling, biological warfare, nuclear smuggling, red mercury, aliens, the Russian- the American- the Estonian- the Swedish- and the Finnish intelligence, often in different combinations.Some normal persons have asked why we don't show the film? A question only asked by them who haven't seen this terrible nonsense movie. Once again, "Baltic Storm" is not banned in Sweden. It has some entertaining qualities but what a hell is Donald Sutherland doing in this movie?

In 1994, the passenger ferry "Estonia" sank in the waters of the North Sea on a journey from Tallin, Estonia to Stockholm, Sweden. The disaster was quickly ruled to be the result of natural causes. However, a German journalist spent the next ten years investigating the tragedy, and came up with evidence that the ship was carrying arms and contraband from the remains of the former USSR to the black market in Stockholm. The movie chronicles this reporter's quest for the truth. Greta Scacchi brings heart and guts to her performance as the journalist, and Jurgen Prochnow delivers a poignant portrayal of a survivor of the tragedy united with the reporter as they search for answers. Donald Sutherland plays a mysterious puppeteer who perhaps has all the answers. The film is tense, emotional, beautifully shot -- a gripping political thriller.

The Baltic Storm is a very controversial story which I think have a lot of truth in it. It's about the big catastrophe in 1994 when the ship Estonia sank between Estonia and Sweden. Over 800 people died and only around 100 where saved.The survivors told about explosions and the proof also told that something wasn't right in the official story about what had happen.This movie is about that and it's quite interesting, but you should not expect any movie like Titanic. This is a movie which have been done to tell the alternative truth with a low budget.I recommend this movie to all you out there which don't buy all the crap politicians and other high people tells us.