It's a film full of cliches and a list full off predictability's. All in the film has been seen before. Best friend dies. Foreigner, not from town. Two of the same sex in love. Of course one of them dies, and one of the main characters dies in the end.

Main character like an ice cube throughout the film.

This is a repetition of every disaster film from the eighties. Only things that was changed are the sexes on the characters.

They even had the obligatory joik and reindeer's, since the film was from the north off Sweden.

This is a film made off a bunch off lazy people. A quick buck because they know that old Kiruna have to and are moving.

We have seen all of this before over the years but with better actors and better scripts (and better effects to be honest) Classic movies like Twister, Dante's peak, Volcano and Day after tomorrow.

But even new movies like Greenland, Deepawater horizon, San andreas fault and 2012 are way better and enjoyable than this.

As usual SVT is relentlessly using their form A making sure the women are strong, the men weak, the daughter dating a girl and the protagonist replacing the husband with a man from the middle east.

While each of those on their own could have worked they instead decide to go all in and the story suffers from it.

Tuva Novotny is trying hard but the rest of the cast is lacking and some are extremely poor.

It could be that the bad script are making them look worse than they are though.

I found the fact that they are moving an entire city fascinating and would actually prefer watching a movie/documentary about that instead.

Its sad but id rather rewatch the older movies i mentioned above than endure movies like this.

Most Swedes are probably aware that the entire city of Kiruna in northern Sweden town has been been moved (and is still in the process of being moved) due to the LKAB mine expanding and the risk of cave ins are therefore substantial.

...or something along those lines.

This well-made and fantastically exciting Swedish disaster movie paints a scenario in which the impending collapse becomes fact.

Frigga (Tuva Novotny) is in charge of safety in the mine, and she tries to balance the relationship she has with her demanding job with the relationship she has with her two children and her ex-husband (David Franzén), and now also her new boyfriend (Kardo Razzazi) - who have just come up from Uppsala to surprise her in Kiruna, right on time for when everything starts going to hell.

Avgrunden certainly lives up to all the usual disaster movie standards: From a slow build of tension, to the total disaster - and everything in between.

It has characters with history, and whose personal lives you actually invest in - and to keep the tension high, the movie doesn't shy away from sacrificing a few of them.

But even if it is "standard", it is GOOD standard!

The scenes in the mine are claustrophobic on an unexpectedly high level, and the "crawling through the narrow passage" sequence in particular left me short of breath!

The chaos out on the street lacks those real mammoth proportions, but for a Swedish movie it was still impressive!

The last bit felt a little drawn out, and I would have preferred to instead see it woven into a longer disaster sequence, with the big collapse as the climax.

Richard Holm directs, and he has also written the screenplay together with his son Robin Holm aswell as Nicola Sinclair.

I have a difficult relationship with Swedish cinema, so I always get extra happy when a movie made in my home country surprises me, and this was 105 unexpectedly thrilling minutes in the movie theater!