Kursk: The Last Mission

Translated from swedish: Camaraderie, the joy that spreads through weddings, survival instinct, high technology underwater, defense secrets, official lies and seventy-one children who lost their fathers. Vinterberg and his team have created a brilliant film with epic qualities, in the true humanistic spirit. Still moved by the funeral ceremony, whose "breach of etiquette" evoked gut reactions.
- Mats Hallberg

Swedish: kulturbloggen.com »

Translated from swedish: This is an incredibly intense and tragic thriller about the real-life submarine disaster that shook the entire world a couple of decades ago. Thomas Vinterberg creates here a tender and truthful portrayal of the catastrophe, and even though I know what's going to happen, I hope relentlessly, all the way to the bitter end, for something else.
- Jonna Vanhatalo

Swedish: moviezine.se »

Translated from swedish: The submarine drama "Kursk: The Last Mission" is gripping and unsettling
- Maria Brander

Swedish: expressen.se »

Translated from swedish: I'm impressed by the visual effects, the actors' performances, and even though the fictional drama doesn't depict the historical events in detail, Thomas Vinterberg still delivers a well-crafted, gripping and thrilling film drama with strong emotions of loyalty, pain, panic attacks and heroism.
- Jan-Eje Ferling

Swedish: filmeye.se »

Translated from swedish: "Kursk: The Last Mission" is truly a film filled with heart and pain, and I highly recommend it!

Swedish: filmparadiset.se »

Translated from swedish: Gripping despite everyone knowing how tragically it ends
- Peter Eliasson

Swedish: skd.se »

Translated from swedish: What gives "Kursk: The Last Mission" an extra dimension among submarine films is precisely how well the different elements work together. Usually, it's raw American action without substance and emotion. But here, the dramaturgy, acting, and Vinterberg's direction elevate the emotional aspects.
- David Lindahl

Swedish: filmtopp.se »

Translated from swedish: Thomas Vinterberg has created a pretty decent disaster film. What mainly makes it worth watching is the story itself behind it, as well as the actors' performances, especially those playing the men inside the submarine, which is clearly the film's strongest point. But it feels like there's so much more potential here than what we get, and I particularly miss the suspense that could have been better.
- Linus Andersen

Swedish: cinetaste.se »

Translated from swedish: It's not tight enough for a higher rating in my opinion, but still grippingly suspenseful.
- Björn Jansson

Swedish: sverigesradio.se »

Translated from swedish: Glimmers of light in an often tediously conventional film that only when the frame finally narrows again finds its way back to that captivating yet strange fairy-tale shimmer it began with, but now under the shadow of tragedy.
- Calle Wahlström

Swedish: ng.se »

Translated from swedish: "Kursk: The Last Mission" convincingly presents a misanthropic power logic that has survived from the days of the Cold War, but there's no escaping the fact that Thomas Vinterberg's film is a geopolitical picture book.
- Jacob Lundström

Swedish: dn.se »

Translated from swedish: "Kursk: The Last Mission" is probably the first submarine movie of the current geopolitical situation, "the second cold war". Plus some really slick advertising for that rescue vessel. You can probably rent it by the hour.
- Mattias Berg

Swedish: sverigesradio.se »

Translated from swedish: Macho submarine drama with a stiff upper lip in "Kursk: The Last Mission"
- Fredrik Sahlin

Swedish: svt.se »

Translated from swedish: Thomas Vinterberg's "Kursk: The Last Mission", about the submarine disaster in Russia in August 2000, points every line of dialogue as eagerly as busily with its entire hand in one and the same direction.
- Jan Söderqvist

Swedish: svd.se »

Translated from swedish: It's set up to be a tearjerker in the style of "Titanic," but remarkably, "Kursk: The Last Mission" never once manages to grab you.
- Mats Johnson

Swedish: gp.se »