Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II (2002)

Best movie ever!

Blistering performances.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Although it is not educational, life and deeds of loafers is found catchy to follow by lots of viewers - apparently "decent" themselves. And the case is better if nasty crimes are not visible and their motive is not personal greed. Gamle mænd i nye biler depicts a story where suspicious measures are taken for the sake of help and remedy. The amount required is huge, time is ticking, and there are dozens of hindrances on the way... As the participants' IQ and moral values are not high as well (mildly speaking), then crazy and funny situations are easy to rise, leading to a logical, but somehow expected ending. Meanwhile, it is pleasant to track the run of events, comprehensions of characters, various action situations; by the way, two chases shown are not worse / less tense than in Hollywood movies. Well, some scenes are knowingly amplified, but they do not become ridiculous.The cast is evenly strong, particularly Kim Bodnia as Harald, Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Martin (his presence could have been more often), Torkel Petersson as Ludvig, Iben Hjejle as Mille. Actors like them could be savers of much weaker script.A good entertaining experience, if you like Scandinavian crime thrillers with humorous touch.

It doesn't happen often that I can't finish watching a movie. Still, 45 minutes into this particular movie, and I just couldn't take it anymore. I felt complete lack of compassion for the main characters. Their goal was despicable (to rob enough money to buy a liver - and one can only guess how one gets a liver and what happens to its previous owner) Their means were disturbing (violent bank robbery with hostages and they were just beginning when I stopped watching) They themselves inspired only contempt in me (one was a serial killer - killed 5 women and was just starting again, another was an ex-convict lacking any self-restraint, other two guys were complete weaklings and worse of them all) So after struggling for a while I just gave up.This was supposed to be a black comedy/underground movie. From my standpoint it fails at both genres. If you want to see a great underground movie see "Reservoir Dogs". If you want to see a great black comedy see anything by Monty Python's Flying Circus crew or a classic like "Arsenic and Old Lace".Rating: 1/10.

Maybe it actually is terrible amusing to let a psycho molest and abuse people on film, but in that case I completely missed the point here. The main character, Harald, controls a gang of pathetic small time crocks/chefs. Their main focus is to provide Harald's dying mentor with a new organ, because the poor old creature probably drank it away. This leads them in the arms of the mentors estranged son, a Swedish serial killer with a longing for fatherly love that he compensates for by abusing and strangulate women - well, with the exception of Iben Hjejle, who used to date a football player, that the gang happened to kill.....doh...sounds kind of lame right? Well, it is.Avoid this piece of nonsense, and instead go and rent "Pusher" or "Bleeder" if you want to experience good and intense Danish crime movies.

I thought the first movie was great. Not only did it have cool action and great, if a little bizar humor, it was also slightly philosophical. This movie is devoid of the latter, but I still laughed my ass off. It is a (pre)sequel, and taken as such, it is quite good. Story is weak and incoherent, direction is shabby, but the dialog, and bizar events, were right on the mark. If you have seen the first, and read this, you should know whether or not you will enjoy it. I know I did, even if it couldn't match up to the first (Hey, not much can.) So enjoy.