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Trolljegeren (Troll Hunter) (2010)

The trolls are key characters in Norse mythology. These beings, who live underground in large caverns and whose primitive personality is characterized as a compendium of the worst defects of human behavior are the main protagonists of Troll Hunter, a Norwegian film that blends the lessons learned from The Blair Witch Project Cloverfield and to create a very respectable action film.

The film begins with a brief prologue writing, that warns the viewer that the images are going to look completely real and that they were found in a number of film rolls delivered anonymously to a police station. What is surprising is that this warning, which has already been used many times and that no modern audience would think, is still a resource that serves to generate excitement and high expectations of striking images. Troll Hunter expectations meets a good way.

A group of film students, consisting of a cameraman, a sound girl and a young director, decided to make a documentary about the myth of the trolls and on the insane to think that somehow they could exist. The twist in the tale begins when, by a twist of fate, found a rough-hewn character who happens to be a hunter trolls hired by a secret agency of the Norwegian government, which maintains the giant beasts in a remote area country to avoid an encounter with a human settlement.

The director and screenwriter of the film, André Øvredal, demystifies the trolls and robs them of rationality with that mythology had endowed these creatures transformed into violent animals guided purely by instinct but leaving some key points detailed in the literature, such as attracting them by the Catholic human blood or the fact that when subjected to sunlight instantly turn to stone.

As young people increasingly are introduced into the secrets of the government entity that controls the trolls , the action is duplicated and the tape comes in a very good level of dynamism, spiced with the typical handling of handheld camera that always work to create tension in the audience and cheap but convincing special effects that recall the work done by Neil Blomkamp on District 9 .

Troll Hunter has almost nothing new to offer, however, despite its simplistic story, his questionable actions and its many inconsistencies, succeeds in being an entertaining show that does what it promised in the trailer and will delight the Action movie fans.