Bloodbrothers (2005 film)

Bloodbrothers is a 2005 Swedish crime film directed by Daniel Fridell starring Liam Norberg, Thorsten Flinck, Sofia Helin, Thomas Hedengran and Noomi Rapace. The film released on 2 December 2005 in Sweden.

Plot

30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.

Production

Blodsbröder was filmed on a very small budget of 500,000 SEK and took three years to make. The movie is an independent sequel to Fridell's earlier movie Sökarna, released more than ten years later.

Reception

Fredrik Strage called Blodsbröder a "total collapse" in a review in Dagens Nyheter. Esbjörn Guwallius, writing for Swedish film site film.nu, described it as a "positive surprise", while noting that many would probably call it a fiasco. Writing for Svenska Dagbladet, Jeanette Gentele called it "exciting, well executed and a little bit amusing" while Jan-Olov Andersson called it "better than expected" in Aftonbladet.