Synopsis
Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The events grasped the world’s attention when the hostages bonded with their captors and turned against the authorities, giving rise to the psychological phenomenon known as “Stockholm Syndrome.”
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Cast
- Ethan HawkeLars Nystrom
- Noomi RapaceBianca Lind
- Mark StrongGunnar Sorensson
- Christopher HeyerdahlChief Mattsson
- Bea SantosKlara Mardh
- Mark RendallElov Eriksson
- Ian MatthewsDetective Halsten Vinter
- John RalstonDetective Jakobsson
- Shanti RoneyOlof Palme
- Christopher WagelinVincent
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Stockholm, which gently massages actual events to serve as a fine vehicle for Noomi Rapace and Ethan Hawke, is far from the first movie to believably show a crime victim coming to sympathize with a criminal. But it's a funny and agile one. - 67
The Film Stage
As a comedy with a good-natured soul doing bad things to earn his surrogate brother freedom, Stockholm is a success. - 60
TheWrap
If you’re willing to take the movie for what it really is — a fairly generic caper inspired by, rather than based on, actual events — you’ll find just enough to appreciate. - 60
The New York Times
Drowsy in feel and muted in color, Stockholm is lightly amusing and watchable — mostly thanks to Hawke — but never makes the case that this is a story that needed to be told, with or without laughs. - 50
The A.V. Club
Hawke is no stranger to elevating subpar material with a committed performance, but his fidgety crook-with-a-heart-of-gold act is undercut by Budreau’s uncreative use of the limited setting (almost the whole thing takes place inside the bank) and unskillful handling of the broad tone. - 50
Variety
The opening title says “Based on an absurd but true story,” yet there’s nothing absurd about the facts. Improbable? Yes. Hapless and desperate? Most definitely. But the absurdity — the impulse to giggle — is mostly there in the eye of the writer-director, Robert Budreau, who collaborated with Hawke two years ago on the entrancing Chet Baker biopic “Born to Be Blue” but here comes off as a far less sure-handed filmmaker. - 50
The Playlist
The film is not meaningless, or even trifling, but, Stockholm never rises above mediocre, and that is what hurts the most. - 50
Slant Magazine
Forget Dog Day Afternoon, as the film doesn’t even clear the bar set by F. Gary Gray’s tense and exciting The Negotiator.
