Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Prime Time

Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Prime Time

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  • Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
  • Release Date: 2012-07-04
  • Runtime: 93 minutes
  • : 5.3
  • Production Company: Yellow Bird
  • Production Country: Sweden
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5.3/10
5.3
From 17 Ratings

Description

It is Midsummer's Eve and ten people are on a deserted castle for a TV recording. The next morning the program leader is shot dead. Kvällspressens Annika Bengtzon a mandate to monitor the murder, but she soon learns that her best friend Anne Snapphane is one of the ten suspects. When the police released all one after another - all except Anne - it becomes personal for Bengtzon who will do anything to exonerate her friend.

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  • Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

    4
    By Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots
    Director Jakub Piatek chooses to take the conventional approach in his hostage thriller “Prime Time,” a formulaic and disappointing effort that presents nothing unique nor exciting. Set on New Year’s Eve 1999, the film tells the story of disturbed young man Sebastian (Bartosz Bielenia), who hijacks a television studio and takes a famous game show host (Magdalena Poplawska) and a security guard hostage. Much like its lead character, the film doesn’t seem have a plan of where it wants to go or how it wants to get there. Bielenia is well-cast as the mentally unbalanced gunman, turning in a performance that’s distressing and sad. When it’s revealed that Sebastian has been facing bullying and ridicule at the hands of his own father, the anger and fear that I felt towards the character turned to pity. That’s not enough of a driving motivation for the character, however, and that there is no eventual reveal as to the reason Sebastian did what he did is a letdown. He has a message he wants to deliver, but we never learn what it is or to whom it is directed. Other elements took me completely out of the film as well, including the stupid ways the characters react to the hostage situation. The police are incompetent, and there are so many things they could do to diffuse the situation and end it quickly, but they don’t. It’s ridiculous some of the actions (and non-actions) the characters take here. The extremely slow story eventually picks up, but only in the film’s last half hour, which makes it far too late for “Prime Time” to salvage all that came before.

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