Kill Buljo (2009)

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The Plot.Jompa Tormann and his guests and family are brutally gunned down during an engagement party. Sami- and women-hating police officer Sid Wisløff is put on the case. Together with his colleague Unni Formen and Sami guide Peggy Mathilassi, Wisløff tries to find the guilty party, but Jompa Tormann survived and he wants revenge!Satire on Kill Bill made for no money in Norway. It works! It's sort of like those wacky Airplane movies, or more recently, Scary Movie, but a different genre.At times it hearkens back to very early Woody Allen (Take the Money and Run, Bananas) with surreal kooky set ups and deliveries.At first I thought the good reviews were set up by people who worked on the film, but I have to say, it's funny. I liked it.

I am from the town that this movie was made in, and I have seen and talked to the director and the actors on several occasions.I can see that it may be hard for folks that aren't from Norway to get the humor of the film, hell even the people who live in the southern Norway have a difficult time getting it all... So with that said, this movie is maybe not for everyone. It's not meant to be just a parody of Tarantino's "Kill Bill" movies, this film uses lots and lots of local humor which to other viewers may seem very lame.So I can understand why this movie have got a bad rating here, but if we all came from northern Norway this movie would have 10 Stars :)

I was very reluctant seeing this film cause I expected it to be a piece of s**t film. I was aware that this was a low-budget, comedy/parody movie and that's really not my genera so I was not very eager to see this movie. My friend persuaded me to see it, telling me it was kinda funny. So my expectations were really, really low. But even with my very low expectations I was let down. Releasing this film internationally is just an insult to all intelligent Norwegians, and I would like to apologize to all non-Norwegians seeing this crap, on behalf of Norway. This film does really not represent us. Thank good. Oh and by the way, the only reason this film got one star is because there 0 stars isn't an alternative.Do yourself a favor, don't waste one minute watching this movie. Unless, maybe if you're from the north of Norway AND drunk.

I remember seeing this at my video rental shop and feeling a small spark of joy in my heart. A parody of Kill Bill? Brilliant! I love parodies!And so I rented it, expecting a lot...maybe too much.The beginning of the film made me laugh. The parody of the wedding massacre with all the body outlines on the floor, including a reindeer was very good, but when the actors came in everything went to hell.The acting is bad, terminally bad. The main actors expression does not change once throughout the whole bloody film!! In fact the whole acting part reminded me of some cheap, unenthusiastic college joke film. The film has funny jokes in it, but it has a nice truckload of poor and frankly disgusting ones to shove the good ones out of the audience's mind. Most of those bad jokes involve coprophilia, bestiality (oh yes there is some in there), scatological humour and tired and overused jokes (the "I am your father" one is spectacularly painful to watch). The dubbing was horrendous and clashed with the poor acting. The Englisg voice acting was very over-dramatic compared to the wooden, never- changing expressions of the actors...if zombies were picked to play human characters this film would be the result.There is also a long running obsession with homosexual rape, bestiality and coprophilia in this movie, why? I don't know, I suppose they just thought that a fat cross-dressing Madame Irma type character crapping in a bowl was hilarious so they included it. Also, racist attitudes towards Laps apparently stem from homosexual rape by burly Scandinavian lumberjacks...what were they thinking?The final scenes of the film really show that the people making it just gave up. The sword fight with Buljo is ridiculous, with the two fighters randomly and softly clashing their katanas together...and then there's the "I am your father joke". WHY?!When the reason why the evil gang of cattle rustlers (?) or whatever they are reveal why they tried to kill the main character you will have a good laugh as it is pretty funny...but then your mirth will be snatched away by the clumsy and painfully unfunny fighting scenes...oh, and the Star Wars joke too, did I mention that? And finally, the evil Buljo is killed and you are treated to some premium quality arse-groping...so funny.All in all this film has funny aspects to it, but the sheer randomness and disgusting humour just spoils it completely and seems to show a lack of effort from the creators. If you like watching films with insanely stupid and disgusting random humour or just like low budget films, go ahead and rent it, there is worse stuff out there...but I recommend you get yourself some beer to go with it.