While ‘The Quiet Ones’ Is a Sometimes Nail-Biting Entertainment, It Is More Confusing Than It Should Be
The screenplay by Anders Frithiof August is based on a true event, the so-called Copenhagen Job bank robbery of 2008, the biggest mystery of which is that a majority of the cash is unaccounted for.
Pity Amanda Collin, a Danish actress who cuts a stark figure in Frederik Louis Hviid’s “The Quiet Ones” but really isn’t given much to do. Ms. Collin plays Maria, a security guard at a large facility outside of Copenhagen that, among much else, stores large quantities of cash for the city’s banking institutions. She’s a commanding presence, our Maria, stern in demeanor, taut in physique, and driven to succeed. Too bad she’s little more than an addendum to Mr. Hviid’s heist picture.
One could conjecture that Ms. Collin’s character has been included as a love interest or eye candy, and in both cases the suppositions fall flat. There is love in “The Quiet Ones,” but it isn’t romantic, it’s parental: Our anti-hero, an aspiring boxer named Kasper (Gustav Giese), has a young daughter who he clearly adores, Sara (Dagmar Madicken Greve Halse).
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