Borgríki (Olaf de Fleur Johannesson, 2011)

How much gangland violence can a placid country with a population equal to the Borough of Croydon sustain? Quite a lot, as another instalment in the Scandinavian crime drama wave, City State, attempts to convince us. The acting, from the likes of Iceland's go-to man for granite-faced grittiness Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson (Jar City et al.) as a mob boss on edge, is solid enough but there's too much of a feeling that the script is just ticking boxes, with the usual corrupt police and Serbian mafias all out for revenge. The bottom line is that it's hard to care about any of them and so, for once, when Hollywood picked this up for remaking, I didn't lose any sleep over it.

5/10