Empty Barrels (2010)

Cautiously Recommended

Norway

Feature Film

Original Title: Tomme tønner

Writer/Directors: Leon Bashir, Sebastian Dalén

Cinematographer: Petter Holmern Halvorsen

Composer: Christin Wibe

Cast: Leon Bashir, Anders Danielsen Lie, Jenny Skavlan, Kim Bodnia, Kristoffer Joner, Bjorn Sundquist, Yasmine Garbi, Slavko Labovic, Stig Frode Henriksen, Tommy Wirkola

Bashir and Dalén’s oft laugh-out-loud funny if generally uneven and uninspired gangland farce follows the exploits of three low-level crooks who aspire to greater things and take a job for “The Dane“, Oslo’s drug kingpin, in the hopes of rising through the organised crime ranks; but, of course, things run anything but smoothly. Iain.Stott