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Film Review - The Tunnel

TUNNEL 1

While Hollywood remains obsessed with producing big-budget superhero entertainment, Norway has been taking care of disaster movies since 2015, finding creative success with “The Wave” and “The Quake.” The films were trying to bring a little American noise to Norwegian audiences, but the writing aimed to be more human, constructing a realistic level of danger and sacrifice while still playing up the big screen appeal of mass destruction. And now there’s “The Tunnel,” which isn’t connected to the previous two pictures, and features a great deal less violence. The idea here is helplessness in the middle of a claustrophobic setting, with director Pal Oie searching for suspense in survival and rescue efforts highlighting characters dealing with the immediate danger and the gradual suffocation of a tunnel fire. “The Tunnel” isn’t chaotic, but it’s suspenseful, with Oie carefully escalating the central crisis, paying attention to personal relationships, not visual effects, along the way. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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