The Trip (movie 2021)...marriage challenges Norwegian style

​      This was never going to be a quiet romantic weekend getaway. It was only ever meant to look that way. But then again, no one expected things to go quite like this…
       Lisa (played by the original and second best to Rooney Mara Lisbeth Salander) and Lars (that bald dude)  are a couple at the end of their marriage. Where other people might try marriage counseling or even divorce, these two thought it over and went with the murder option. What went so wrong there? Seems just like a series of disappointments staggered, from their respective careers never taking off (she’s a never-made -it actress, he’s a barely-there director) to Lisa’s affair. Now it’s time to end things. Only they both appear to have prepared for the same outcome. It would have been a duel to the death situation if only three prisoners on the lam hadn’t interfered.
      Yeah, imagine that, someone, three someones, would flee a Norwegian prison, allegedly some of the best prisons in the world. Anyway…they are out, they are hiding in Lars and Lisa’s cabin, and they are determined to take over. The only way Lars and Lisa can fight those three is by presenting a united front, which is understandably somewhat difficult, considering the circumstances.
      Now it’s a proper battle royal to the death, professional criminals of various degrees of intelligence and violence and an average mostly non-criminal (except for that tried to kill each other thing) citizens. Let the games begin.
       And boy, are the games fun. There’s a distinctly foreign sensibility to the proceedings, the violence is graphic but tempered with humor…this is technically a comedy, albeit a very dark one. It’s outrageous, over the top and executed with a sort of very charming, demented glee. In other words, it’s hugely entertaining. Who says romance is dead?