The Rasmus: In the Shadows (Bandit Version)

Not a bad Finnish-flavoured entertainment

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Lauri Nurkse and Niko Saarela in Pahat pojat (2003)

Peter Franzén, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Lauri Nurkse, and Niko Saarela in Pahat pojat (2003)

Jukka Sipilä and Juha Veijonen in Pahat pojat (2003)

Peter Franzén and Jasper Pääkkönen in Pahat pojat (2003)

Lauri Nurkse and Jasper Pääkkönen in Pahat pojat (2003)

Jasper Pääkkönen and Elsa Saisio in Pahat pojat (2003)

Peter Franzén, Lauri Nurkse, Jasper Pääkkönen, and Niko Saarela in Pahat pojat (2003)

Peter Franzén

Niko Saarela

Lauri Nurkse

Pekka Lehtosaari

Anssi Miettinen

Four well-mannered but poorly grown brothers drift into a life of crime when their schizophrenic father is sent to the mental hospital.

Aleksi Mäkelä

Pahat pojat

Not very good

When you take off the nice explosions and the &quot;this is based on a true story but we just don&apos;t admit it&quot;-attitude this doesn&apos;t give much.

There are all the basic elements of a film here, but the story telling as a whole just doesn&apos;t work. I guess they haven&apos;t heard about timing when doing this film, it&apos;s just action from the beginning to the end. No climax, no peaceful scenes. Just when you think you can really concentrate on the characters they throw some action on the screen again. It suffocates the relations between people and gives very one-sided view of the characters.

The action is mostly like &quot;hey we could do this and this&quot; and I found most of it unnecessary. There are also good things in this film though. It was partially filmed in my home town and it&apos;s always nice to see some places you know well. Also the director Aleksi Mäkelä&apos;s father showed in two or three scenes. The boys had trained their muscles very well and looked good. If I had been turned on by those sixpacks I would probably have gotten much more out of this film. Vesa-Matti Loiri was ok.

Aleksi Mäkelä has made some attempts to make a big budget action film in Finland and this film is a good practice ground, but it doesn&apos;t convince me yet. Hope he will some day make something really thrilling and new, not just average material mostly copied from Hollywood action films. It was also a bit fun to see Finnish businessmen, known of very different relations, producing the film. This is not only a film, it is also an investment. If I had to describe this with one sentence I would probably say: Finnish big budget action films have come and succeeded. Go watch it if you like but don&apos;t expect too much.

When you take off the nice explosions and the "this is based on a true story but we just don't admit it"-attitude this doesn't give much.

There are all the basic elements of a film here, but the story telling as a whole just doesn't work. I guess they haven't heard about timing when doing this film, it's just action from the beginning to the end. No climax, no peaceful scenes. Just when you think you can really concentrate on the characters they throw some action on the screen again. It suffocates the relations between people and gives very one-sided view of the characters.

The action is mostly like "hey we could do this and this" and I found most of it unnecessary. There are also good things in this film though. It was partially filmed in my home town and it's always nice to see some places you know well. Also the director Aleksi Mäkelä's father showed in two or three scenes. The boys had trained their muscles very well and looked good. If I had been turned on by those sixpacks I would probably have gotten much more out of this film. Vesa-Matti Loiri was ok.

Aleksi Mäkelä has made some attempts to make a big budget action film in Finland and this film is a good practice ground, but it doesn't convince me yet. Hope he will some day make something really thrilling and new, not just average material mostly copied from Hollywood action films. It was also a bit fun to see Finnish businessmen, known of very different relations, producing the film. This is not only a film, it is also an investment. If I had to describe this with one sentence I would probably say: Finnish big budget action films have come and succeeded. Go watch it if you like but don't expect too much.

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