Executive Protection

Executive Protection

Directed by Anders Nilsson

Produced by Film i Väst, TV3 Sverige

2001112 min6.2 / 10

A high-stakes thriller centered on a protagonist forced to navigate escalating threats from a ruthless antagonist, with his wife's life hanging in the balance.

After causing a commotion with his last assignment, Falk has been given a desk job, which hardly agrees with his personality, and he ends up accepting an offer from an old friend to buy into a private investigation agency. Another friend of Falk's, Sven, purchased a business in Estonia, and when local gangsters attempted to pressure him into paying protection money, Sven retained the services of Nikolaus Lehmann, a burly private eye, to throw them off his trail. However, Lehmann does his job all too well, murdering the racketeers, and then threatening Sven and his family. With no where else to turn, Sven asks Falk to help him deal with the crazed Lehmann; Falk agrees, but soon realizes he's dealing with a more dangerous man than he imagined when Lehmann kidnaps Falk's wife Jeanette, and then releases her with a time bomb locked around her neck, demanding that Falk hand over ownership of his detective agency to Lehmann.

Questions people ask

  • Is Executive Protection scary? Yes. More frightening than 82% of films.

  • Is Executive Protection violent? Yes. More violent than 80% of films.

  • Is Executive Protection easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is Executive Protection sad? Not especially. Less sad than 73% of films.

  • Does Executive Protection end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 63% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

29/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

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Rarity7

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise65

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love30

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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