Reviews

• Jensen helms with assurance and maturity, with rapid but unhectic pacing, plenty of dark humor and deft action sequences that turn cliches from U.S. action-comedies into something very Danish.

  - Variety
  
  19 January 2013

• It's funny and violent and fast and, er, Danish.

  Stephen Hunter - The Washington Post
  
  19 January 2013

• Anders Thomas Jensen's Flickering Lights may have been a huge hit in Denmark, but it doesn't travel well. A bleak male-bonding comedy that's a queasy blend of brutal humor and escalating sentimentality, it is overlong, heavy-handed, slow and unpersuasive.

  Kevin Thomas - Los Angeles Times
  
  19 January 2013

• As it stands, this movie seems to have conflicting desires: to endear itself to the audience and then repel it.

  Desson Thomson - The Washington Post
  
  19 January 2013