Troll movie review

 

I am a big fan of monster movies. It started with Jurassic Park, continued with The Mummy, the King Kong movies, Transformers series, Godzilla series, etc. If there is a large creature in a movie, I will watch it. Netflix captured my interest by showing me the thumbnail of this movie named Troll, and I decided to watch it.

The movie starts like every film or TV series about a monster, with unexplained phenomena happening, and people speculating it to be something else, only for the monster to emerge and reveal itself to the world. The Norwegian government tries to cover up the existence of the monster for as long as possible, fails spectacularly, and it boils down to a ragtag bunch of humans who kill it eventually. Like many monster movies, the creature in this movie is trying to mind its own business, but inadvertently causes destruction to property. This results in the movie showcasing the worst behaviour among humans, where the first reaction to seeing something new is to kill it. Not single person in the decision making committee that is convened to handle the new "threat" even mentioned that it may not be a good idea to kill the troll, but to try to understand its intentions. The humans follow up with two futile attempts to kill the Troll, but it does not even suffer a scratch. During the second attempt, the creature even saves a human life. This is seen and acknowledged by the humans, and still there is no change of heart. The protagonists eventually find out about the history of the troll, that their kind used to roam the Norwegian plains freely before the advent of Christianity, and a sequence of terrible events during that period wiped out their kind. This Troll is one of the last of its kind, and is going to the royal palace to reclaim its throne. Oslo is emptied, and while preparations are put in place to use nuclear weapons, the rag tag bunch of humans manage to lure the troll away from the city using another set of horrible techniques. The poor troll gets killed by using ultraviolet light on it, and while it is dying, the humans realize that it is a bad idea to kill the troll since it was minding its own business. This realization comes too late, and the troll degenerates into a set of rocks.

The plot and story are simple, but the viewer will leave the movie with a horrible taste in their mouth while thinking about the action of the humans in the movie. The visual effects are good, with the troll looking lifelike throughout, and the interactions with it seeming realistic. The actors do a good job while portraying their characters, and the background score does a good job to add to the overall atmosphere.

Overall, Troll is a well made movie, but the story could have been better. A post credits scene reveals the existence of another troll, and the movie makers have another chance to make a better story.

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