V2: Dead Angel
V2 – Jäätynyt enkeli

Finland 2007 colour 92min Solar Films

Action, comedy

cast: Juha Veijonen (Jussi Vares), Hannu-Pekka Björkman (Jakke Tienvieri), Jussi Lampi (Veikko Hopea), Johanna Kokko (Mirjami Sinervo), Lotta Lindroos (Lila), Kari-Pekka Toivonen (Pusenius), Pekka Huotari (Jalkanen), Kari Väänänen (Saastamoinen), Vesa Vierikko (Kaitainen), Tommi Korpela, Kari Hietalahti (Kullervo Visuri), Elina Knihtilä, Markku Peltola, Jasper Pääkkönen (Dante Hell), Seppo Pääkkönen, Niko Saarela, Eeva Litmanen
credits: dir. Aleksi Mäkelä, prod. Markus Selin, script Marko Leino (based on a book by Reijo Mäki), music Lauri Porra, DOP Pini Hellstedt

The first movie of Reijo Mäki’s crime detective Jussi Vares was a big success in Finland, so it was easy to start making the second one. V2 brings Jussi Vares (Veijonen) to Pori, a small Finnish city. His old friend Jakke Tienvieri (Björkman) has been accused of a murder. A young prostitute (Kokko) is dead and mr. Tienvieri is the last person, who spoke with her. It’s not easy to investigate this case, because the whole city seems to be quite crazy. Mr. Vares meets a whole bunch of transvestites, whores and criminals before he finds anything important.

V2 is mostly pretty boring to follow. It’s full of meaningless violence, characters without realistic background and situations leading to nowhere. Juha Veijonen and young Lotta Lindroos are the only actors in this film, who have some good material to perform and they show it. But mostly this flick is just waste of your time, so don’t bother to view it if you’re not a great fan of nonsense action comedies.

TRIVIA: Director Aleksi Mäkelä has a cameo role as taxi driver in this movie.

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