loes-uytterschout
This film was highly praised in (Belgian) newspapers for its ice cold depiction of a marriage being swallowed up by an avalanche, so to say. My eagerness to watch it was set in motion!. When watching it, I must say I can't remember getting so agitated so very quickly from watching a film. What started out with such potential quite rapidly unravelled into a combination of irritatingly one-dimensional charachters, an almost cartoonish portrayal of events and numerous pointless scenes. Scandinavian film making unworthy, truly!
Leofwine_draca
On release, FORCE MAJEURE was widely applauded as a bleak Swedish comic drama, in which a father's act of cowardice during a family skiing holiday has powerful repercussions for his place in the family. It sounded good, but having just endured watching it, I can report that the praise is unfounded. This is a simple character drama, of the type they make so many of, and it has little to recommend it. The events depicted early on are surprisingly trivial, and the film fails to make the protagonists in any way likable, so watching them argue, fight, and cry is a real chore. The actor from GAME OF THRONES is the only thing I liked about this slow, slight, and uninteresting tale, which is about as interesting as watching paint dry.
Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . as it led to the job termination of Ima Hogg, USA TODAY's final full-time film critic, and perhaps America's last major print media movie reviewer. Ms. Hogg's career suicide kicked off when she included FORCE MAJEURE on her 2014 "Top Ten" listing. To make room for FORCE MAJEURE, Ms. Hogg had to leave such Crowd Pleasers as AMER!CAN SNIPER, MOCKINGJAY, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, CAPTAIN AMER!CA: WINTER SOLDIER, and THE LEGO MOVIE off her Top Ten Honor Roll. "What's wrong with that?" you might argue, "Everyone's entitled to her own opinion!" Reading between the lines, what vexed the brass at USA TODAY and many other major media outlets with female "film critics" was their consistent string of superlatives heaped upon FORCE MAJEURE as it penetrated the film fest circuit from Cannes to Canada. Sometimes Payola can take the form of a Booty Call in the arms of some Swedish PR Flac dude built like Thor. Otherwise, no one in her right mind would put MAJEURE's yawner of a Swedish Meatball in their top 250 flicks-of-the-year list, let alone within sniffing distance of Top Ten Anything. If made by Americans, the only distinction coming the way of FORCE MAJEURE would have been multiple Razzie Awards.
Roger Tulilatva
This is a feminist movie. The women are strong and accuse the men of everything. Men are weak Swedish guys who spend a lot of time crying and complaining why the heck they did what they did. Visually the movie is nice to watch, it's just extremely boring and I feel embarrassed for the actors.I was hoping for the avalanche to wipe out the family and their two friends, that would have saved a lot of trouble from everybody. It would also have saved us from any possible sequel with the same actors.The gas guns trying to launch a controlled avalanche are also extremely disturbing as they bring zero value to the movie. Maybe the director just need some other sound than just the crying.
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