The Tunnel Review: Norway s Latest Disaster Movie Is a Horizontal Towering Inferno The Tunnel Review: Norway s Latest Disaster Movie Is a Horizontal Towering Inferno
Holiday travelers are trapped by smoke and fire in this well-crafted but uneven third recent Norwegian disaster thriller.
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Director: Pål Øie
With: Thorbjørn Harr, Ylva Lyng Fuglerud, Lisa Carlehed, Ingvild Holthe Bygdnes, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Per Egil Aske, Jan Gunnar Roise, Silje Breivik.
Running time: Running time: 104 MIN.
Courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn Films
Though it will forever be associated with one brief mid-1970s heyday, the disaster-movie genre has made a stealth comeback in recent years, being a natural fit for a cinematic era dominated by CGI-laden action fantasies. Of course Hollywood has kept its hand in, with efforts like “San Andreas” and “Pompeii.” But there have also been parries as far afield as China, whose enjoyably ridiculous,