Move On (2012)

Who payed the critics

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

*************READ THIS ONLY IF YOU HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE AND WANT TO UNDERSTAND IT. IF YOU ARE SCRATCHING YOUR HEAD ABOUT THE ENDING YOU REALLY NEED TO EXAMINE YOUR OWN LIFE****************Not to be rude or condescending....so sad how people try to make sense of this film in the most nonsensical way!!! People, it doesn't matter what is in the suitcase (were you waiting to the end to see what was in it to make it complete)..... The meaning of the movie is related to leaving things behind and moving forward. (Try it sometime it will make your life better)The suitcase "symbolizes" baggage from the past that needs to be thrown in the deepest, darkest, furthest hole so then one can move on. One has to give himself/herself time to move on. It is a "journey" (Hint: SPOILER .....Road Trip.... )and in the end you have to throw everything away in order to move on. That is all! Don't look for no action or any answer about what was hiding in the suitcase. The entire movie is about that moment when Mads throws the case away. (Again rinse and repeat...try it your life will be better) Thanks for your time and feel free to comments please !

This was an interesting film. From what I've gathered, it was completely inspired by fans; which is a concept I like. The story is a little weak and there are holes in the plot, but the acting by Mads Mikkelsen more than makes up that. Mikkelsen is one of the most dynamic actors out there today; and unfortunately he does not get the credit he deserves. He is able to elevate an otherwise dull film into something worth watching. He is mysterious, charismatic, and able to draw you in. He can control the viewers interests by simply making a inconspicuous stare or changing the tone of his voice. He is by no means a cookie cutter actor. He makes you want to know more about him in this film and keeps you invested in what he's doing and how he's doing it. Definitely worth a watch if you want to see one of today's finest in action.

Spoilers ahead- A nameless agent, his mission is to get a Haliburton type case to it's destination. We never find out what is in the case, he's followed and lead by a young woman who seems to be after the case. She is more than a step ahead of the aging secret agent on his last run. We get to see some beautiful European cities and countryside as he drives to each stop, he gets more and more beat up as the journey progresses. The young woman turns out to be someone who survived one of his assignments where it seems her family was killed as collateral damage. He doesn't remember faces, I guess that is how any spy would get by, but she jogs his memory and he admits he was sorry and asks for forgiveness. He knocks her out leaving the money he was going to exchange for the case (she did wind up stealing it) and even her gun. It gets into the Prisoner territory by the end, he throws the case into a strange bottomless looking hole in a lake in Macedonia. He's free just like Patrick McGoohan. I liked it, I like Mads, I like cryptic intriguing stories where I fill in the blanks, I even didn't mind the product placement all along the way.

All right, as the other guy said, it's a commercial. And there's product placement. There's also an awesome Hungarian wedding (they know how to party, I can hear Frank Gallagher saying), and the fact that none of it makes sense doesn't matter because the incidental details are fascinating. Great faces in the background. Really interesting music of varied styles throughout. Stunning scenery. It's an echo, plotwise, of an old B&W film from the fifties, Kiss Me Deadly, directed by Robert Aldrich, about a mysterious box containing (we presume) radioactive material, which eventually is thrown into the ocean but in this version into the biggest hole in a lake I've ever seen (nice). But there's only seven plots in the world, right? A wee joke about Valhalla Rising towards the end, possibly, as the mysterious girl points to Mads' destination and he puffs up and down those hills to get to the water? Asgar Leth directed with style. And watching Mads is a pleasure, as always.