Enforcement

Name: Enforcement
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: March 19, 2021
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Abdelmalik Dhaflaoui, Ali Abdul Amir Najei, Arian Kashef, Dulfi Al-Jabouri, Issa Khattab

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Magnet Releasing | Release Date: March 19, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Abdelmalik Dhaflaoui, Ali Abdul Amir Najei, Arian Kashef, Dulfi Al-Jabouri, Issa Khattab, Jakob Ulrik Lohmann, Josephine Park, Lara Aksoy, Michael Brostrup, Özlem Saglanmak, Simon Sears, Tarek Zayat

Summary: Jens and Mike, two police officers on routine patrol, find themselves trapped in a maze of buildings when unrest spreads.

Director: Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 108 min

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Empire Ian Freer

Sep 5, 2021

Shorta is a Molotov cocktail of a movie. For co-directors Ølholm and Hviid, it’s a Hollywood calling card. For the rest of us, it’s a tense actioner, anchored by powerful performances from its leads, who add layers to good cop/bad cop clichés. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Mar 16, 2021

The film is both a lurid urban thriller and an earnest parable about (almost literally) walking a mile in someone else’s shoes. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Mar 17, 2021

As effective as Enforcement is on a visceral level, it comes up short in any deeper reflection on the social crisis of its premise. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 2, 2021

Enforcement, released as “Shorta” (Arabic slang for “cops”) in Europe, is a solid is slow-moving police actioner that reminds us that no matter the continent, police work is the same dangerous game. And that the world over, that “game” has entirely too many of the wrong sorts of people signing up. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Sep 5, 2021

While Shorta is certainly a propulsive piece of action cinema, which makes effective use of its acid yellow, cement grey and burnt umber palette and warren-of-concrete location, there’s a crudely schematic quality to the writing. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Sep 2, 2021

There are plenty of heart-pumping moments, plus a fair few false notes, a couple of implausible coincidences and some exposition-y dialogue spelling out the film’s message, which is about how the two sides see each other. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Mar 19, 2021

And when the movie’s over, nothing is resolved that the filmmakers didn’t side-step or reduce to a few unconvincing symbols of hope for a more equitable future. You might like Enforcement if that’s a line you already want to buy; there’s otherwise not much here to change your mind. Read full review

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Mauro_Lanari

Jun 17, 2021

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After more than 4 centuries, something is still rotten even in the state of Denmark: and why shouldn't it? Film about the omnipervasiveness of moral ambivalence that the two directors would like to demonstrate with a script more chock-full of fortuitous combinations than the(Mauro Lanari)
After more than 4 centuries, something is still rotten even in the state of Denmark: and why shouldn't it? Film about the omnipervasiveness of moral ambivalence that the two directors would like to demonstrate with a script more chock-full of fortuitous combinations than the text on synchronicity published by Jung and Pauli in '52.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Apr 9, 2022

I think that in any nation, many people do not have a good impression of the police.
For better or worse, there are corrupt cops. There are those who abuse their authority, there are racists and yes, there are those who do their job well. But of course it will always be problematic to giveI think that in any nation, many people do not have a good impression of the police.
For better or worse, there are corrupt cops. There are those who abuse their authority, there are racists and yes, there are those who do their job well. But of course it will always be problematic to give power to a person who will abuse it.

Enforcement seems to try to give an impression of that problem, however the morality expressed in its story really leaves a lot to be desired, because the constant of its plot is to overwhelm the viewer with a frenzy of action instead of leaving room to actually discuss what it is trying to talk about, and this is reflected in a devastating way when you get to the end and realize that even after everything they went through, nothing was resolved, nothing was really questioned, only some wounds were opened to make you believe that at least the argument is somehow more valid because they tried to expose it.
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