Netflix Troll Movie reviews: Norwegian Monster Disaster Movie

01 December 2022

By: meditation Define

From the very begining of the trailer for Troll, a new Norweigan-language fantasy-action film directed by Roar Uthaug,

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it’s clear that there’s something very wrong in the mountains.

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Uthaug is the director of Tomb Raider (the 2018 version) and 2015 disaster thriller The Wave,

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and his new Netflix film seems to combine a magical fascination with the fairy realm

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with an exploration of how ancient creatures might actually interact with the modern world.

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The trailer shows something trapped in the mountains of Dovre. When a gigantic troll awakens after thousand years,

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it begins to destroy everything in its path, quickly approaching Oslo. Combining a natural disaster story with a creature feature,

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Troll looks like a clear climate disaster analogy wrapped up in a destructive force ripped out of a fable. 

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It stars Ine Marie Wilmann, Kim S. Falck-Jorgensen, Mads Sjogard Pettersen, and Gard B. Eidsvold.

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