Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Famke Janssen

Cush Jumbo

Joachim Król

Steven Mackintosh

Naomi Battrick

Ruairí O'Connor

Denis O'Hare

Eva Röse

Lukas Loughran

Dylan Devonald Smith

Sallie Harmsen

Orla O'Rourke

Christopher Pizzey

Tim Ahern

Martin Wenner

Caroline Bartholdson

Daniel Sjöberg

Dana Blacklake

Celine Abrahams

Leander Vyvey

Ben Vinnicombe

Rose Etherington

Jack Wheatley

Lisen Rosell

Dionne Hernemar

Anna Jones

Maryam Grace

Ryan O'Sullivan

Rory Bray

Clare Neave

Alex Field

Tashienna Bookal

Marcus St. Cyr

Ryan Hannaford

Alex Joseph

Effie Digbori

Joacim Landin

Mattias Ng

Sofia Perlgård

Colin Gorry

Tracey Edmonds

Miriam Segal

Paul Brennan

Andrew Stern

Danis Tanović

James Patterson

Liza Marklund

Pancho Chamorro

Leopoldo Gout

Gail Stevens

Sean Barton

Mark Birmingham

Rebecca Farhall

Heather Pitchford

Jennifer Williams

Jessica Hurles-Laws

Paula Turnbull

John E. Story

David Levin

Christian Mercuri

Marc Gabizon

Ellen Brown Furman

Will Young

Mark Cushman

Steve Bowen

Norman Merry

Peter Hampden

Heike Merker

Neena Tailor

Salvatore Totino

Kia Jam

Shaun Cobley

Stan Fus

Simon Lacey

Nigel Egerton

Mark 'Rocky' Evans

Clive Miles

Roo Maurice

Bill Robinson

Tena Štivičić

David Banks

Doris Schrenner

Will Cummins

Tom Darby-Evans

Paul Hanks

Robert Treen

Tove Alsterdal

Peter Nelson

Simon J. Willis

Tom Russell

James Swarbrick

Markus Aldenhoven

Martin Rushton-Turner

Richard Raley

Pål Morten Hverven

Paul Dray

Darren Holland

Damir Šagolj

Katy Covell

Josh Reinhold

Choi Ho Man

Bobby Prince

Ian Waggott

Adam Hughes

Stephen Longstaff

Elizabeth West

Samir Fočo

Jill Rachel Morris

Alan Bailey

Rob Hughes

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london, england

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family secrets

stockholm, sweden

serial killer

ex-husband ex-wife relationship

Generally I like these crime-dramas, which I is why I also watched CSI and Criminal Minds when they were on. However, this adaptation of the James Patterson/Liza Marklund novel has some editing problems and sloppy dialogue. There were a couple okay scenes that did surprise, otherwise it kind of plods along at a slow pace. If not for Jeffrey Dean Morgan, this would've been tough to sit through. **2.75/5**

Big fan of Jeffrey Dean Morgan, but this isn't a good film.

<em>'The Postcard Killings'</em> should be full to the brim with vigour and vitality as the plot involves a mystery that takes the characters across Europe. Unfortunately, it's extremely dull from start to finish. It's not anything necessarily terrible, it's just the uneventful feel to things hampers this 2020 release hard.

Morgan gives a solid performance, though I kinda wanted more from him - at times he kinda felt miscast, if I'm honest. I'm not fully sure if that's the case or not though. The support cast are fine if forgettable, the minor standout behind Morgan is Naomi Battrick; who I recall seeing in a few early episodes of television show <em>'<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow">Jamestown</a>'</em>, which I found to be equally as uninteresting as this.

This needed a quicker pace and more action, without that it's a disappointment.

CinemaSerf

When a young girl is murdered on her honeymoon, her devastated detective dad "Kanon" (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) joins in the investigation. It doesn't take long for him to discover - with the aid of Swedish journalist "Dessie" (Cush Jumbo) - that this is not an unique crime, even though the perpetrator leaves the bodies as if they were features in a famous work of art. Meantime, the young Naomi Battrick and Ruairi O'Connor are travelling thorough Europe on a train when they encounter the burly, tattooed "Pieter" (Dylan Devonald-Smith). Might they be in the same danger? The story has quite a few twists and turns, and were it in better hands with a better cast then it might have been, well, better... As it is, though, the more interesting aspects of the plot are seriously undercooked; it takes far too long for us to get going and the quality of the acting and the dialogue - pretty much across the board - is nothing special. Some nice scenery, I suppose, but despite his tragedy I just couldn't warm to "Kanon" nor to his underused wife "Valerie" (Famke Janssen). It's a standard television movie that passes the time, but nothing more.

Filipe Manuel Neto

**When the main problem is knowing too much too soon...**

Serial killers will always be fodder for movies, good and bad. It's not worth quoting examples, anyone reading this has probably seen at least ten movies about serial killers. This is one more, based on original Scandinavian material that I've never seen, but I'd like to see it, and I'll try to find it. Honestly, I hope it's better than the movie I just saw...

The film is not bad. Don't get me wrong. It has a good base premise: murders that imitate famous works of art all over Europe, with the father of one of the victims desperately trying to catch the culprit. But it's not at all original, it does the same things that we're tired of seeing in established films, and it doesn't manage to go beyond the usual recipe to offer us something that makes it stand out. And there is a huge problem that partially ruins the film: we discover the identity of those who are killing people too soon and, from there, it is only worth watching the film to see how the police will hunt down their target.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a very solid and competent protagonist, able to commit himself and give the character the consistency and anguish that it demands. Undoubtedly, the actor's performance is a bonus in the film. Despite being heavily criticized, I think Famke Janssen wasn't that bad. She does have depressing moments and sometimes goes overboard, but she gives us a relatively satisfying job, and doesn't have many opportunities to really fail. Joachim Krol seems to be out of place and lost. Naomi Battrick is quite good, taking into account that she is not a frontline actress and has handled a character who demands a certain charisma and attitude; Ruairi O’Connor, honestly, cannot say he is happy, he erases himself even in scenes where he is more visible.

Technically, it's a regular film without great merits, but it doesn't fail too much either: the European settings and landscapes, always pleasant no matter how commonplace they may be, are joined by standard cinematography and ordinary work on the costumes. Some well-crafted effects and a lukewarm soundtrack make for a cohesive and functional, if forgettable, whole.

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Written by JPV852 on Fri May 15 2020

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