The Promised Land (2023)

I doubt that they will shoot anything better than a Martian about growing potatoes (sorry, please).
The film is average, it seems like the plot is not bad, but very straightforward, no surprises. It seems that the characters are interesting, but very one-sided. It seems that the actors play well, but there is not much need to play there.
Separately, it is necessary to praise our localizers. The King's sword? Well, they would call it a bastard, like everywhere else.

The film is touching.. it's even hard to watch at times, it takes you by the soul ... the film is definitely worth watching.. to look at how a man of honor tries to achieve his goals and dreams... but as a result, he understands that not all means are good for achieving the goal, but more importantly, the people who were with him..

a cool and atmospheric movie. I liked everything, both the production and the story itself. The cast is also good here, Mads as always 😍

A slow and unhurried Scandinavian film.
There are colorful sunsets, colorful carpets of herbs, picturesque landscapes of forests, recreated settlements of the 18th century, costumes, uniforms, dresses, wigs, weapons... This is a story, the Danes approached the shooting with great love. They are very respectful of the deeds of their ancestors
The plot plays out the real story of an officer who tried to colonize swampy wastelands. for the glory of the sovereign and Denmark. The novel that became the script somewhat idealized the situation and personality - it's just like the Midshipmen in Russian cinema. In reality, the surveyor Ludwig von Kahlen did not give up trying to grow his crops for ten years. After long efforts to organize an agrarian community, frequent escapes, rather meager results were obtained. All this time, the lieutenant from the marshes sent reports on the promotion, and the idea was crowned with success. For the last decade of his life, von Kahlen served as a captain in a military fort. The movement of land reclamation in the Danish marshes will receive a new impetus in the next century, after the war of 1864.
Ludwig did not refuse the title, he accepted it with gratitude for his patience with hardships. Whether there was an Ann-Barbara in his life, I have met with confirmations.

Everything is very delayed. Boring

Mads as usual 🔥🔥🔥

A very good example of how not to translate the title of a movie. This is not an action movie, but a potato Danish epic. I watched it for Mudds!

Mads played great, there are just no words, you watch this movie and worry with him. I liked the movie, although it was very heavy.

Gorgeous movie, gorgeous Mads

I liked the movie. Translation of the name is not in the subject. And in terms of the plot, there is only one question to the main character - and it was worth it?

It was a good movie, it was interesting to watch and, on the whole, I liked it. But it's too dreary. I was expecting to see a brave medieval action game where all the enemies are stacked.) But they showed something completely different. At the same time, it also falls short of pure-blooded deep drama. So the genre is unclear, but the plot is fascinating.

I'm with those who saw only Mads and potatoes in the film😏

The Dane Ludwig Kalen, a captain who has paid a debt to his homeland for a quarter of a century, finally resigns and decides to realize a long-cherished dream - to receive a noble title. A soldier in the best traditions of one of the characters of the game Red Dead Redemption 2 is a man who has a plan. He only needs to settle from scratch in the wastelands of the Jutland peninsula, put the fields in order, sow with culture, establish a settlement, attract settlers so that the settlement is called a settlement. Well, not to die in the process. And there will be enough reasons for death. However, such trifles are unlikely to break Kalen, who has a carrot hanging in front of his eyes in the form of a certificate, sorry, a diploma.

Once, with my grandmother, I went to the local drama theater to see a production of Shakespeare's King Lear. And, therefore, when one of the characters had his eyes torn out, she said in a low voice, but audible enough to others, indignantly and slightly shocked: "Oh, the times! Oh, manners!". Here "The Sword of the King" is such a typical near-historical movie about both tempora (not to be confused with tempura) and seas (not to be confused with the sea).

The hero performed by Mads Mikkelsen stoically endures hardships and hardships on the way to a dream. At the same time, everyone around also suffers from one or the other. And then - from both at the same time! A kind of suffering Middle Ages, only suffering Enlightenment, on the eve of Absolutism. Yes, it was difficult for people without mobile games like "I'm a farmer with my mom."

The director Nikolai Arsel (The Dark Tower, The Royal Novel) is trying his best, firstly, so that the viewer actively reacts to the unfairness and indignantly clucked his tongue, saying the same thing is impossible!#34;, and, secondly, he tries to make it beautiful so that this most pampered viewer, clicking his tongue, would not be so disgusting and insulting for what is happening. It turns out well - you can't take that away.

The story is moderately dramatic, moderately realistic, but the characters are quite interesting. Well, it's not even worth talking about Mikkelsen. Without question, it drags. But the local antagonist Shinkel is also good, a landowner and at the same time a judge who puts a spoke in the wheels of Kalen's farming hobby. He may be an operetta villain, but the actor manages to make the audience hate his alter ego with half a kick. Well done. The swearing little gypsy girl is funny.

To be honest, I didn't have enough realism. I wanted a little more dirt in every sense. The pictures there are grainy, after all. A more European approach, perhaps. Here are Mylene Farmer's clips from the nineties about the French Revolution that immediately come to mind. Or are the Europeans already licking the frame so much? I haven't watched anything about history from them for a long time.

"The Sword of the King" is in the sense of European cinema, but in terms of technical quality of performance it is quite Hollywood. Well, it's sleek in terms of presenting a story. In places, it even seemed to me that they were turning on one of the episodes about Angelica, who is the queen of angels, and that's it. I will not say that this is bad, but there is a feeling that something was not done. However, perhaps this stretches back to the original book called "Captain and Ann Barbara" by Ida Jessen. An amazing piece of work! Four titles ("The Sword of the King" we have, "Bastarden"/"Bastard in the original, "The Promised Land" in the English box office) and none other than the English Land the promised land, which would normally describe what is happening.

If you don't find fault with the little things, "The Sword of the King" is another decent movie with Mikkelson.

P.S. By the way, the main character of the book and the film is based on a real-life person, but, apparently, the protocol was not so epic.

Rating: 7 tractors "Belarus" out of 10

Maybe the thing is that the movie didn't get into the mood, but it was incredibly boring to watch, somehow I finished it. It's not a bad movie, but it didn't catch on at all.

As if at the moment when the first settlers called that little girl leprosy and a messenger of misfortune, they wanted Mr. Madsa to stand up and proudly say that she was the messenger of the first victories, for example, the germination of seeds. As if if he had stood up for that little girl back then, the plot might have turned differently.

Although on the other hand, such vile people as that very badly graduated nobleman (I'm bad with names) don't know the other end. People who kill peasants so easily deserve to die themselves. The second is a very sad conclusion.

And the third one. What kind of northern peoples are strong and nurtured by the cold. According to Mads, it reads very well. All of his roles as a whole are twelve shades of breadcrumbs, which at some point breaks down due to attachment to someone or something.

Why didn't I see him before
I don't like movies about this century
These manners, concepts, etc., so I don't look
Why did you watch this one? By chance, I was just going through the list.
I've never regretted it, delight! One o'clock in the morning, just finished watching, no sleep in one eye) Interesting to the point of horror, never got bored or distracted from the screen.
Look, you won't regret it!