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Overview

User Rating:
6.5/10   1,782 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Pekka Lehtosaari (writer)
Reijo Mäki (novel)
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Release Date:
23 July 2004 (Finland) more
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Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
User Reviews:
Pretty crappy more (5 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Juha Veijonen ... Jussi Valtteri Vares

Laura Malmivaara ... Eeva Sunila
Jari Halonen ... Karl E. Miesmann
Markku Peltola ... Luusalmi
Jorma Tommila ... Antero Kraft
Minna Turunen ... Ifigenia Multanen

Samuli Edelmann ... Mikko Koitere
Pekka Valkeejärvi ... Jari 'Hillosilmä' Munck

Kari Hietalahti ... Tetsuo Sinkkonen

Jasper Pääkkönen ... Jarmo
Santeri Kinnunen ... Touko Reiman
Heli Sutela ... Liisa, Eevan ystävä
Georges Copeloussis ... Gennadi Antipov
Mihail Jegorenkov ... Sergei
Viktor Drevitski ... Juri
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Vares (Finland) (short title)
Vares: Private Eye (International: English title)
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Runtime:
Finland:95 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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The news reporter who reports about the couple's escape on the TV in Vares' house is a real news reporter in Finland's channel 4 (Nelonen). more
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References Pulp Fiction (1994) more
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Jäätelökesä more

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10 out of 48 people found the following review useful.
Pretty crappy, 18 July 2005
Author: SPaS (ronroer@hotmail.com) from Espoo, Finland

This film insists on hooking into everything that is wrong with Finnish cinema today and dragging them behind. It would really be easier to tell what they happened to get right with this movie

editing and cinematography a total of 1 joke(s). Has to do with an 'adult' chocolate candy. And that's it

Does film school make you stupid? When there are like dozens or a hundred people working weeks and months on a rather big project, doesn't anyone, I mean ANYONE of them see that something is horribly wrong? Who the heck greenlighted that... that "script" in the first place!? Worthy a razzle, and on top of that the acting is so-so, 90% of the characters are stupid (stolen from better American films) and so on. A movie about a private eye that lacks suspense and especially ACTION. Not sure if there was a point though, cause I had a hard time sitting it through as it was, let alone start THINKING about it.

Mr. Selin, Mr Mäkelä - stick to dramas if you don't once in a blue moon dare to try some SERIOUS man-to-men-combats, gunplay, explosions, car chases, wrestling with sharks and avalanches. I understand that to you they must be "subversive over-commercial and over-used Hollywood double cheese" because you try hard to be a "serious film-maker in the best traditions of the man-oriented intelligent high-brow European cinema" but hey, look who's making box office? Hint: financially back up those guys who made the straight-to-DVD "Ukkonen" a few years back. Minus the idiot director of course. See what happens. Here's a suggestion for the title and a tagline

ONE MILLION SQUIBS "Plot? What plot?"

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