This film has
a 99% percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. When police officer Asger
Holm (Jakob Cedergren) is demoted to desk work, he expects a sleepy beat as an
emergency dispatcher. That all changes when he answers a panicked phone call
from a kidnapped woman who then disconnects abruptly. Asger, confined to the
police station, is forced to use others as his eyes and ears as the severity of
the crime slowly becomes more clear. The search to find the missing woman and
her assailant will take every bit of his intuition and skill, as a ticking
clock and his own personal demons conspire against him. This innovative and
unrelenting Danish thriller uses a single location to great effect, ratcheting
up the tension as twists pile up and secrets are revealed. Director Gustav
Möller expertly frames the increasingly messy proceedings against the clean
Scandinavian sterility of the police department, while Cedergren's strong
performance anchors the film and places the audience squarely in Holm's
tragically flawed yet well-intentioned mindspace.