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Rear Admiral Tordenskjold could have been used a lot better comedically. You only need to remember the series The Red Dwarf, where there were several scenes with the alleged Rear Admiral Rimmer, and he actually wasn’t even a rear admiral. I say this because the premise looks really great at first glance and if you were an unbiased viewer, you tell yourself, you could actually laugh quite a bit. But the opposite is true. The Danes handled it more seriously than they should have. You are actually bored during the movie in a way that makes you almost annoyed. The ending proves, however, that the creators from Denmark, so brace yourself and prepare for a tragedy. The Scandinavians are way better at that than at comedies. This film is solid proof of that. It is all the more a pity that a film like this was shot in the Czech Republic because the sets are flawless. The problem is the script that should have turned Tordenskjold into a funny and entertaining caricature and at the same time, it turned him into a slimy weakling who drinks, fucks, and says nothing of any value. (2017.06.26)

For some reason, I thought it would be a rather daring film, especially for a comedy, but surprisingly, it's not that daring. It's just quite vulgar in places. It's funny at first, but then you are supposed to start believing that it's based on a real event. And it stops being interesting, even fun. The characters aren't bad, but they just can’t carry it the whole time. (2017.08.22)