Hamilton (1998)
Swedish agents Carl Hamilton and Åke Stålhandske are ordered to stop Russian smugglers.
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This was an awesome movie that actually made you feel as if you were part of the plot, and kept the audience reminded of the fact that good & evil deeds depends on whom you are pulling for. I rank it right up there with some of the blockbuster hits out of Hollywood with much heavier payrolls and budgets than that of Hamilton. This is absolutely one of the better movies in its genre.
Although 'Hamilton' is a rather good action movie it does lack the interesting details from the original books; "Ingenmansland" and "Den Enda Segern". The books don't include all the action in the movie. The action-sequences in the books are actually only a very small fraction of the whole story. The movie actually differs so much from the books that it will be hard to make more movies from the Hamilton book series...
I think this movie shows a positive development in the movie industry in Scandinavia. It`s a brilliant action-film, with many elements that Hollywood wouldn`t accept (read: chainsaw-scenes). Peter Stormare is excellent and the best of the Hamiltons` that have appeared on celluloid. It has many different scenes and locations from Morocco to the Russian tundra and is a multi-international adventure. Jan Guillou is a very good writer and this is a fine product of two of his books (Ingenmans land and Sista Segern). See it, and make up your own mind.
This is one of the better movies about Carl Hamilton and his missions for the swedish goverment.Peter Stormare plays the part of Hamilton quite good but sometimes he is a litle stiff specially in scens with Tess (Lena Olin). But in the action scenes he is perfect. The way he grins with his teeth when Hamilton is in a tight spot is a thing of beauty. Mark "Luke Skywalker" Hamill is playing the bad guy in this film, and he is not bad as Hawkins. He is both funny and bad at the same time which is making the character more interesting.The story is not the best one from Jan Guillou but it is enough to make it one of the better ones.I still think that Stellan Skarsgard is "Carl Hamilton".