Thure Lindhardt Movies

Angels and Demons re-teams director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks for the sequel to their international blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Although the book Angels and Demons was written before the novel The Da Vinci Code, the movie transpires after the events of the earlier movie. Hanks stars as professor Robert Langdon, the most respected symbologist in the United States, who uses his knowledge in order to decode a symbol on the skin of a murder victim. The clues put him on the trail of an international conspiracy involving the Catholic Church. Ewan McGregor and Ayelet Zurer also star in the Sony Pictures production. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Festival cause célèbre Ole Christian Madsen -- the director of critically championed prior efforts including Kira's Reason (2001) and Prague (2006) -- turns away from the domestic drama that characterized his earlier filmography with this unusual period thriller, adapted from historical events. Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen star, respectively, as Flame and Citron. As two members of the anti-Nazi Danish resistance during the Second World War, their activities predominantly consist of hunting down and rubbing out Denmark's most prominent Nazi collaborators, and thus furthering the way for the Allied cause. Although Madsen opts for conventional subject matter here, and even a traditional perspective given his film's anti-Nazi stance, his deglamorized presentation retains a certain uniqueness, with the two main characters presented not as conventional heroes, but thoroughly desperate characters from the dregs of society with nothing left to lose except for their own lives -- and sociopaths prone to the most sadistic acts of ultraviolence against the enemy. Citron fares worst, as an utterly irredeemable alcoholic and drug addict, crumbling beneath the weight of a miserable, rotten marriage and a less-than-glowing relationship with his young daughter. In touting the film, Madsen openly cited Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows (1969) as one of his key influences. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

This ultra-stylized Danish thriller draws major influence from the murky passages of detective novels and comic books, following its characters through rip roaring shootouts and over the top gunplay. It focuses on a career criminal named Frank Lowies who organizes a brilliant final heist to set him and his gang for life. When all goes wrong and they wind up behind bars, Frank languishes in jail for seven years, but he still has an ace up his sleeve: he stashed the loot! Now it's time to recollect, but word has gotten out on Frank's secret stash, and every hired gun in town has their sites set on the same pile of money . ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

The second directorial effort from filmmaker Shaky Gonzalez, this gory flick centers on an ex-con whose plans to go straight are curtailed by a fellow criminal and some demons. Tolo Montana stars as Carlitos, a man looking to make a fresh start and a life with his young son. Unfortunately, when he's talked into "one last job," Carlitos soon finds himself embroiled in a situation far beyond anything he'd bargained for. One Hell of a Christmas has also been known under the title The Claw. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide