who dunnit horror movie combo

Rating: 3/10 (9 October 2012)

This Swedish who dunnit missing heiress/murder mystery/serial killer saga is a notch or two above the usual but nothing special. I guessed at the biblical connection immediately (Magda etc..) but was hoping against hope that this mass market cliché would not turn out to be true.
Once the biblical connection was forged this movie went from a 7 to a 5 and then when the Nazi and Jewish connections were added it went down to a 0. When will they bury that tired theme!?--now almost completely incredulous as the villains age into their late 80s or 90s.
I found the violent sex scenes rather middle class and tame...sodomy and oral sex is the best they could come up with? But the girl gets even with a dildo! So innocent and corny as to be laughable.
The cinematography was below average--nothing soothing fun exciting or unique in the visual department in fact the opposite.
The violence against women social message was overdone baggage especially the unbelievable subplot of the probation case manager.
The serial killer stuff is sort of grafted on as something historical and incidental to the main action... If I had known the movie contained these sub themes I would never have watched it--I like mysteries not horror movies.
I came apon this movie in a round about way. I had watched "Headhunters" a Norwegian movie which is 1000 times better than this film and when reading up about it I chanced apon this title in some way. Not in the same league at all.
It got an extra star for the Swedish provenance and the suspense part of the who dunnit--up to the bible clue that aspect was quite good and is successful in hooking you into watching the movie. However, after about an hour this movie deteriorates rapidly into predictable grade B boiler plate.
If there is nothing else on it beats Jerry Springer.