Hamilton (1998)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Harald Zwart

Writers:

William Aldridge (writer)
Jonas Cornell (writer)

Release Date:

30 January 1998 (Norway)

Genre:

Action | Crime

Tagline:

Från producenterna av "Vendetta"

Plot:

Swedish agent Carl Hamilton (Peter Stormare) and Finnish Åke Stålhandske (Mats Långbacka) are ordered to stop Russian smugglers...

Plot Keywords:

Smuggler | Agent | Nuclear Missile | Burning Money | Board Game

Cast

Peter Stormare	...	Carl Hamilton
Lena Olin	...	Tessie
Mark Hamill	...	Mike Hawkins
Mats Långbacka	...	Åke Stålhandske
Terry Carter	...	Texas Slim
Yevgeni Lazarev	...	Yuri Chivartsev
Zakia Tahri	...	Moona
Christer Söderlund	...	Ulfsson
Per Grytt	...	Per Molander
Per Flygare	...	Jansson
Madeleine Elfstrand	...	Anna
Andrei Smolyakov	...	Barabanov (as Andrej Smolyakov)
Thomas Hedengran	...	Gustavsson
Anders Lidberg	...	Fjälljägare
Mikael Ahlberg	...	Andersson

Also Known As:

Commander Hamilton (Australia)

Runtime:

Brazil:127 min | Germany:117 min | Finland:127 min

Country:

Sweden | Norway

Language:

English | Swedish | Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:MA | South Korea:18 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 (cut) | Germany:18 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Enköping, Uppsala län, Sweden

Company:

Dune Films

Trivia:

The base took several months to build and nearly 500.000 SEK ($US 60,000) worth of damage was done when it was blown apart.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Hamilton explains to Tessie what happened in Russia, the ranks on his shoulders are on backwards in several shots. In the Royal Swedish Navy it is a tradition that when someone notices this, the offender must provide all bystanders with a glass of whisky.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in One Night at McCool's (2001)

Soundtrack:

RACHID TAHA & CARTE DE JOUR-YA RAYAH

Is this the best Hamilton film ever? I think so. Harald Schwart,Peter Stormare and Lena Olin gives Hamilton a whole new dimension.

This is probably the best Hamilton film ever. Although there`s a few holes in the story,Scwart manages to give us the story of the two Jan Guillou books Ingenmanslan Den Enda Segern. I suppose those holes will be corrected in the TV-series. Peter Stormare is,in my opinion the best Hamilton ever,and getting Lena Olin to play Tessie was also a major scoop. Althogh I don`t think I can ever identify Mark Hamill as anyone else than Luke Skywalker,I think he gives Mike Hawkins the necessary cynicism that the character was given by Jan Guillou.