Name: Motello
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1998-02-20
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Allan Olsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Bent Warburg

Wikke & Rasmussen has been known for 15-20 years for making alternative but intelligent humoristic television. This is a typical Wikke/Rasmussen movie, with Hitchcockish elements in a David Lynch-like setting. The first 45 minutes or so builds up the plot quite good, the next 25 minutes or so stalls a bit, but are somewhat interesting - the ending however, is rather poor and sudden - there is no real intensity in the last scenes of the movie, and the viewer sits back with a feeling that they could have done it a lot better, the material and storyline taken into consideration.

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