646f9e108c Police lieutenant Nyman is murdered in his hospital bed and Martin Beck and his colleagues have another murder to solve. They discover that Nyman was a very tough policeman who received several complaints about his methods. His partner Hult defends him against these accusations, while Nyman's widow explains that Hult was the only one outside of the family who knew where Nyman was hospitalized. It becomes obvious to Beck, that a lot of people wanted Nyman dead, but he is not the only one targeted. Soon a sniper kills policemen from a roof in central Stockholm.
Bo Widerberg is terrible as a director. All his movies are useless and this piece of film isn't any different. Ha ha Swedes are trying to make an action movie. Its a disgrace!!!!! As a Turkish man living in Sweden I try to watch their movies but get depressed each time. I have recently watched some Russian movies and I can assure you the movie about Maxim Gorkij is ten times more interesting and refreshing than any Scandinavian movie ever made. especially Swedish films. Foreign films in general are bad. Except Turkish movies they are great. Unfortunately people don't watch them often. However, don't watch ever any Swedish movie Ahmed Sellam
This was the first attempt to mix social comment and action in a Swedish movie. Bo Widerberg had previously tried, successfully, the social comment. This time he tried action for the first time. And without a doubt he succeeded.<br/><br/>It's about police brutality and a victims attempt to seek revenge. The only trouble is that he doesn't think it's enough to kill the police who was the cause of his anger, but he tries to kill every policeman that comes in sight.<br/><br/>It shows the routines in police-work, as well as fabulous action sequences. The camera-work is brilliant. Notice the sequence when the camera moves backwards with enormous speed in front of the policemen running down the stairs at the subway-station. Steady-cam wasn't invented yet.<br/><br/>Brilliant acting galore. Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt playing the Martin Beck part, was really a comedian, not a serious actor. He did a great job, especially in the balcony scene, which was a very painful experience for him.<br/><br/>If you don't like looking at blood, close your eyes when the curtain opens in the first scene of the film.