Reviews
The King's Choice
Original titleKongens Nei
Directed by Erik Poppe · starring Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen and Karl Markovics
- 4 from the press
- 6.3 · 4 votes
The King's Choice: reviews
Reviews
6.3 4 votes
What the critics say average 7.0 from 3 outlets
- 8.0 CinemaníaSergio F. Pinilla
'The king's choice' offers to the audience an very entertaining political-military intrigue which also documents what were probably the three most crucial days of Norway's recent history as a sovereign state.
Read - 7.0 The Hollywood ReporterStephen Farber
The film tries to broaden its scope by introducing the character of a young Norwegian soldier fighting the Nazis, but his character, like too many others, is fairly stock.
Read - 6.0 FotogramasFausto Fernández
Beyond the strictly revisionism / national exaltation notes of the film, we find in its interior what made the duel of candidates in Schafner's title apprehensive: the Mephistophelean incapacity to never do the right thing in the interested machine of interests of State.
Read - El PaísJavier Ocaña
Through various points of view, Poppe enters the story with a narrator's pulse, capturing with remarkable transcendence the two great subtexts of a crucial time: the lightness of power and the impossible opinion of a human being.
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Questions about the reviews of The King's Choice
- What score does The King's Choice have?
- Readers give it 6.3 (4 votes). The critics, 7.0 on average from 3 reviews.
- What do the critics say about The King's Choice?
- The highest score is Cinemanía’s (8.0) and the lowest Fotogramas’s (6.0).