SummaryJens and Mike, two police officers on routine patrol, find themselves trapped in a maze of buildings when unrest spreads.
Directed By:Frederik Louis Hviid, Anders Ølholm
Written By:Anders Ølholm, Frederik Louis Hviid
Enforcement
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Generally Favorable
64
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4.9
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Generally Favorable
55% Positive
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Sep 5, 2021
80
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.
Mar 16, 2021
75
The film is both a lurid urban thriller and an earnest parable about (almost literally) walking a mile in someone else’s shoes.
Mar 20, 2021
70
A thriller that’s both a relentless adrenaline rush and a social-issue Rorschach test for all who watch it.
Mar 2, 2021
63
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.
Sep 2, 2021
60
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.
Mar 18, 2021
60
The brawny Enforcement doesn’t shy away from brutal action, but the film is more in line with recent police thrillers like Deon Taylor’s “Black and Blue,” and Ladj Ly’s “Les Misérables,” which fuse overt sociopolitical commentary with genre thrills.
Mar 19, 2021
38
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.
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Apr 9, 2022
5
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 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.
That's lazy storytelling.
Jun 17, 2021
5
(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.
Production Company:
- Toolbox Film
- Det Danske Filminstitut
- Scanbox Entertainment
- Danmarks Radio (DR)
- MEDIA Programme of the European Union
- Charades
Release Date:Mar 19, 2021
Duration:1 h 48 m
Tagline:Shorta is an Arabic word for the police.
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Awards
Danish Film Awards (Robert)
• 2 Wins & 11 Nominations
Social World Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Bodil Awards
• 4 Nominations
