Synopsis
The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers Jens and Mike are on routine patrol in Svalegården's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting uncontrollable, pent-up rage in the ghetto's youth, who lust for revenge. Suddenly, the two officers find themselves fair game and must fight tooth and claw to find a way out.
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Cast
- Jacob Ulrik LohmannMike Andersen
- Simon SearsJens Høyer
- Tarek ZayatAmos Al-Shami
- Issa KhattabIza
- Abdelmalik DhaflaouiDanjiel
- Özlem SağlanmakAbia
- Lara AksoyAmira
- Arian KashefOsman
- Josephine ParkRønning
- Dulfi Al-JabouriSami
Recommendations
- 80
Empire
Shorta is a Molotov cocktail of a movie. For co-directors Ølholm and Hviid, it’s a Hollywood calling card. For the rest of us, it’s a tense actioner, anchored by powerful performances from its leads, who add layers to good cop/bad cop clichés. - 75
Slant Magazine
The film is both a lurid urban thriller and an earnest parable about (almost literally) walking a mile in someone else’s shoes. - 75
Original-Cin
As effective as Enforcement is on a visceral level, it comes up short in any deeper reflection on the social crisis of its premise. - 70
Wall Street Journal
The film gives no reason for optimism in the urban warfare it portrays, but its heart, head and sharp eye are in exactly the right place. - 70
Variety
A thriller that’s both a relentless adrenaline rush and a social-issue Rorschach test for all who watch it. - 63
Movie Nation
Enforcement, released as “Shorta” (Arabic slang for “cops”) in Europe, is a solid is slow-moving police actioner that reminds us that no matter the continent, police work is the same dangerous game. And that the world over, that “game” has entirely too many of the wrong sorts of people signing up. - 60
CineVue
Trouble lurks around every corner, and the narrative does keep us guessing, but this limits any sincere indictment of the apparently irresolvable us-and-them conflict. An arresting, often edge-of-your-seat action film, then, but not the enduring La Haine-inspired inspection of societal ills that it could have been. - 60
Los Angeles Times
The brawny Enforcement doesn’t shy away from brutal action, but the film is more in line with recent police thrillers like Deon Taylor’s “Black and Blue,” and Ladj Ly’s “Les Misérables,” which fuse overt sociopolitical commentary with genre thrills.
