SnoopyStyle In Nazi occupied Denmark, red-headed Bent 'Flame' Faurschou-Hviid (Thure Lindhardt) and Jørgen 'Citron' Haagen Schmith (Mads Mikkelsen) are resistance members. They do not kill Germans following rules of engagement to avoid Nazi retaliation. Their handler Aksel Winther gives them a list from London of German agents to assassinate. It's a murky world of secret agendas, hidden dangers and double dealing.It's a well made espionage movie. It's murky. It doesn't really give much setup for these characters. These are hard men. It's not a simple Bond movie. The movie is a little long but these are compelling characters with a lot of twists. The performances are cold and tough.

James Owen Presumably this was the big one for the Danish, a multi-million dollar production about their own WWII Resistance heroes, so it's possible to forgive the plaudits it gained at home - much in the same way that awful Pearl Harbour film garnered 4 Oscar nominations in America. Sadly, the faint praise for having made the film at all is about as far as I can go, because this is a long, drawn out disappointment.The are many, many problems, the acting and direction constantly clash, as if both searching for one another, hoping to find a narrative harmony that they never actually achieve. If we're watching a cerebral brooding affair, do we really need to see so much brow-sweat and half-shadow? We already know they were stressful times without it being quite so underlined in endless reams of perspiration and artificial unkemptness. This unfortunate disunion isn't helped by wholly one-dimensional and oppressive characterisations. There's no camaraderie, no gallows humour, no attempt show any intellectual bonding, never mind the enemy, comrade sulks at comrade.But the crucial weaknesses are in the incoherence of the double-triple- crossing script, and the unexamined motivations of Flame and Citron to continue killing regardless of the revelations about the intents of their handlers. Rather than heroes who fought through the duplicity and shadiness of war-time collaborators, we are served with what could have been a couple naive tantrum-teens, who apparently believe whatever was the last thing they were told irrespective of anything else and throw one big strop after another when they discover they were lied to yet again.Now I don't know the real story behind the two obviously brave men, but such a portrayal seems like a disservice.

Amanda Brooker After multiple viewings, this film has become one of my favorites. It's truly magnificent. I loved absolutely everything about it.Living in a smallish city in Australia we don't get many foreign films, if any at all. Most of the movies shown at the theaters are large Hollywood productions. But none of those come close this this film. I find myself constantly disgusted whenever I try to see a mainstream sort of film now. Thure Lindhart and Mads Mikkelsen's performance was stunning, and better than I've seen from any of the high paid Hollywood actors.This is the film that got me interested in resistance/partisan movies, though it still remains one of my favorites. The war of a partisan is so different to that of a soldier, claustrophobic, full of paranoia and double crossing. It makes for a great film, but only if executed correctly. Flame and Citron was. I'm so glad I saw this, and I wish that more people would see gems such as Flame and Citron.

juntasix I find this story as powerful as other more well known historically accurate pictures. Schindler's List comes to mind. The two tell similarly obscure stories for an American in an impressive way. What I liked the most about Flame & Citron is its examination of personal mores in a desperate situation, across a diverse collection of individuals and roles. Assassins must weigh God-given moral boundaries against the "all's fair in war" freedom. Controller has to balance his devotion (or lack of it) to the resistance with the need to function openly in occupied Denmark. Informer must balance love for individual, hatred of war/Nazis, and desperate need to survive war. Story was powerfully told; I'd like to see an Eng. language production of the same, with as many performers from original as possible. Mads Mikkelsen's Citronen was particularly strong character. Less known history of WII is still as captivating and moving as ever.