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It's been a long time since ive been on such a thrill ride, each episode just makes the show better and better, absolutely striking beautiful cinematography, clever dialogue, and the acting from Salim and Ranthe is nothing but world class, the rest is also acting at a usual high level from a nordic show. But this is the best thriller series, ive seen yet from Denmark.

Good acting and plot carried this for me to the end. Six episodes is just perfect. Anything longer is asking for boredom.

Story is believable and better than most of the other series out there, so I don't complain too much and just sit back and enjoy.

This series had LOADS of potential.. truly.. and started off really well... Then it just drops off and fills up with countless cliche's I suppose to try and attract a wider audience..

The writers really dropped the ball here.. and I think that stem's from perhaps writing material without any true basic understanding of it.. Lots of very far fetch and frankly nonsensical situations transpire after around 3rd episode that by the 5th I felt I had been insulted enough and just removed it from my library at home... and I REALLY like that lead actor.. alot... I just wish they would have had a better grasp on what they were writing about..

Couldn't stop watching the first 4 episodes but the last 2 and especially the ending is disappointing. Still worth watching though, as long as one doesn't mind the story getting thinner...

A simple story, typical the good cop vs the bad ruthless drug traffic dealer, chapters are gripping and intense. Main character a war veteran playing an undercover crook playing in the burrow of the bad guys. The end result a blend of an American action series with a Scandinavian noir. Ok but nothing else

Well, Denmark has its own issues with gangs, but really to such a degree that people are harassed and killed almost in the centre? The army mission related stuff is not novel as well, it has been a topic in several and catchier creations in Denmark... But the thrill in Kriger is somehow maintained and the events-scenes (although lopsided at times) take the viewer to the logical ending - but without any wow! Effect.

It seems to me that the primary goal of this Series was to provide Dar Salim, Danica Curcic and Lars Ranthe to perform protagonist roles (they have been usually cast into supporting roles). Here, Ranthe in the role of a gang leader was most to my liking, he has mostly performed positive/mild characters in other series.

So, Kriger is not a must see, but if you like to know about as much as Nordic crime series as possible, it is definitely not with a warning "Do not watch!" :)

The best Danish tv-serie I have seen in many years. Really good.

It is an ok show to watch, as it's filmed well, the actors are good, but is straight forward without real tension. Just simple good story that no one tried to take the maximum out of it. The ending is a bit weak as development, but overall positive 6 stars.

... the-lead-protagonists work-well-together ... they're-only-reason this production's-watchable

... story-is-formula right-down to the lackluster-ending ... keep-it-handy ... if-when there's nothing left-to-watch

The acting is overall good, as is the setting and camera-work. The story is serviceable and lends itself to some good moments of suspense. Action-sequences are good. My main concern is the atrocious dialogue and lack of character depth - Tom, the main villain is particularly two-dimensional (he's only missing a monocle) . I appreciate that there in all certainty excists coarse language between gangmembers, but the constant "danish f-bombs" wears really thin after 3 episodes - bad writing. Some of the police procedure seems extremely far-fetched or downright inconceivable, again - bad writing. Is every character in this series a raging alcoholic?

I may seem harsh; I want to like this but I can't help but compare it to "Sons of Anarchy", a much lengthier series, yes, but with both a much stronger characterisations and story.

Please make a Season 2!! I'm in love with these characters!!! Great job!!

Long since i have been that entertained through a whole miniserie. Creepy feeling and strong caracteres.

This might be the weakest Danish crime I have ever seen. There are a lot of threads which are not followed up. Some issues are over-explained, but many more are under-explained and hopeless to explain. I will not say more about this, my review would be full og spoilers... Not recommended!

This six part Danish crime series is centred on CC, an ex-soldier, and Louise, a police officer whose late husband served under CC in Afghanistan. When the police are looking way to infiltrate a biker gang, The Wolves, that is believed to be involved in the drug trade, Louise suggests CC. He agrees and sets about befriending Mads, a young man on the fringes of the group who is keen to be fully included. Some gang members aren't keen on CC but after he proves useful he is accepted by Tom, the leader. It isn't long before CC learns that the gang is expecting a consignment of heroin from the Italian Mafia. There is also a rival group to worry about. As the story progresses and CC gets deeper involved he must question just how far he is prepared to go to get the job done.

While this isn't the best crime drama to come out of Denmark, it is after all up against some stiff opposition, it is entertaining. Dar Salim impresses as protagonist CC, Danica Curcic is solid as Louise and Lars Ranthe is suitably menacing as Tom; the rest of the cast is solid too. At only six episodes in length things never drag and there are plenty of exciting moments and ramping tension throughout. Towards the end things get a melodramatic, perhaps a little bit too much, but it didn't spoil my overall enjoyment of the series. Overall I wouldn't say this is a must see but it passes the time well so I'd still recommend it to fans of the genre.

These comments are based on watching the series in Danish with English subtitles.

This on the surface was a good dram that builds steadily, but scratch the surface and you see lazy writing. The details are very poor and the military and biker "advisers" deserve a biker gang style beating for their sins. The bikers are all stereotypes with the leader the standard psycho with a scar - any patch wearing bike club member will be foaming at the mouth after the second episode, lets just say a full back patch is not ever handed out like sweeties after a couple of smacks in the mouth - the writers should have just written about a gang if the knew so little about how organised bike clubs work!

This series takes place in Denmark and the dialogues are all in Danish. Therefre I don't it's easy to make comments on the quality of the actor's performances. Reading what the actors say and trying to match the subtitles to their faces is decidedly different from experiencing the performances, needless to say. However, the actors seem very talented. I can't say with certainty that the actors delivered good performances, but they did at least seem to be acting well. The characters themselves appeared quite interesting, and the show did seem very well-written. In one particularly emotionally striking scene that shows the series' potential as a drama, the widowed detective's child asks his deceased father's commanding officer if he gave the order that got the boy's father killed. The officer replies only "yes," but the tears in his eyes and pained expression on his face tell an entire story of tragedy and loss.

It is difficult to write good dialogue and establish credible, interesting characters. To accomplish it, you need both talent and inspiration.

Or else..... the result is fiction where people say things that people don't say, react in ways people don't react, do things people don't do.

Like most of the products from the contemporary Danish factory of drama this one will probably be fairly well received by the audiance and the critics.

The latter, at least, should know better. But in a small country with a very limited movie business maybe sometimes the right hand is a little too engaged and invested in what the left hand is doing?

I quite like the feel of the show, but what 'war' have the protagonists been in. Eurovision? Denmark is neutral since the vikings a thousand years ago.

This is drivel stupid plot line the sane Danish actors. The cop woman is not believable. Far too many racial stereotypes for my liking as it gets kind of tired seeing the sane ones each time.

I do hope there isn't a 2nd season.

For a Danish thriller, this thing is really slow and really well not very well written the lead cop woman in the story looks just like princess Markel with the same kind of Skislope nose job. This is one of the most boring slow danish shows that I've ever seen when it comes to crime and cops and all that stuff and very unprofessional it would never happen in real life. It's so unrealistic and it's just pointless. Really I mean the whole war thing is a little bit overdramatic dramatic, the filming as usual is good and the scenery is good music is as usual with danish elite guy. I've seen him another films in his better there than here. He's kind of like a wooden soldier.

The main character, CC, is a retired company commander who holds himself responsible for the death of one of his men. The wife (Louise) of that soldier who died in combat is a narcotics detective in the Copenhagen police force.

Louise asks CC to become an undercover snitch in a case involving the impending gang war between a native Danish gang and a gang of immigrant middle-easterners. Louise's boss, a weird looking, walleyed scutter named Finn, seems more concerned with protecting the immigrant gang from the native gang than in doing anything to stop the drug dealing that the gangs are going to war over. That's what I don't understand about this whole thing.

I might not continue watching this after the pilot. It seems to be populated with a bunch of unattractive actors and the story is written to tiptoe around the criminal element that exists in Denmark among the immigrants. That makes the story unbelievable.