Troll Hunter?
This movie on Netflix kept coming up on my recommendations, because apparently I would rate it 4 stars, Netflix kept saying. Usually Netflix’s suggestions, which are based on your previous ratings, are pretty fair, but this one I thought was a little cuckoo. Surely, a bug in the algorithm. I decided to challenge Netflix and watch the film. This is why I love Netflix.
Troll hunter is a Norwegian film about how a bureaucratic organization inside the Norwegian government is trying desperately to cover up a secret that has been held from almost the middle ages. Oh, I kid. NOT. Trolls are the focus of this movie, in case you haven’t guessed (and if you haven’t, you aren’t particularly bright). Troll hunter is an agent of the government who has been exterminating trolls for as long as he can remember and is now tired of being paid a pittance. He is now ready to leak this outrageous story to a bunch of college kids out on a college project.
This is the Blair Witch project of Norway, only it is a hundred times funnier. It begins with a statutory note saying this is part of a real footage obtained and edited and the movie proceeds in mockumentary style, and what unfolds is an a brilliant mixture of satire, some middling CG and excellent acting. The CG indicates there wasn’t a great budget to work with, but it is sufficiently freaky.
This is one of those rare diamonds that I make me like Netflix all the more.I hear Hollywood has bought the rights to this movie. Watch it before it gets bastardized.
