A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Conspiracy of Faith is the English title of a Danish thriller which premiered in 2016. Here is some basic information about it:

 

** Original Danish title: Flaskepost fra P

(A Message in a Bottle from P)

** Director:  Hans Petter Moland

** Writer: Nikolaj Arcel

** Based on a novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen

** Language: Danish

** Subtitles: English

** Run time: 112 minutes

 

The main characters are two police officers:

 

** Carl Mørck played by Nikolaj Lie Kaas

** Assad played by Fares Fares

 

Carl and Assad work for a (fictional) department of the Danish police in the capital Copenhagen, department Q, which looks into old and cold cases. 

 

The two detectives are very different from each other, but they work surprisingly well together.

 

This movie is the third in a series of movies based on novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen. The others are:

 

** The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)

** The Absent One (2014)

** Journal 64 (2022)

 

What do reviewers say about this thriller?

 

Here are some results:

 

** 68 percent = Rotten Tomatoes (the audience)

** 70 percent = IMDb

** 72 percent = Meta (the audience)

** 100 percent = Rotten Tomatoes (the critics)

 

On Amazon there are at the moment 126 ratings of this product, 60 with reviews.

 

The average rating is 4.6 stars which corresponds to a rating of 92 percent.

 

If you ask me, the first three ratings are too low, while the fourth rating is too high. 

 

The rating on Amazon is also too high.

 

This thriller is good, but not great. What is wrong? It has a significant flaw: there is too much violence on the screen!

 

I like this drama and I want to give it a good rating, but there is a flaw which cannot be ignored. I have to remove one star because of this flaw.

 

This is why I think this movie deserves a rating of four stars (80 percent).

 

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Flaskepost fra P

Danish poster for the movie

(2016)

 

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Flaskepost fra P

By Jussi Adler-Olsen

(Danish version)

(2010)

 

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The Danish writer

Jussi Adler-Olsen

(born 1950)

 

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