All for One/Alle for Én (2011) - Heide and Øgendahl's flawed but funny Danish crime comedy

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The four male stars look game to make us laugh on the not very original poster for Rasmus Heide's All for One

Three dingbat friends are going to prison after a car theft but learn that they can avoid it by helping the police reveal a Dutch art dealer's secret drug business.

All for One is an enthusiastic crime comedy written by the also co-starring Mick Øgendahl (All for Two/Alle for To (2013)) and directed by Rasmus Heide (The Christmas Party/Julefrokosten (2009)). Øgendahl has written an excessively verbally and language-oriented script, and some of the scenes of the slacker characters sitting around telling each other jokes just don't fly.
Jon Lange (Denmark 92/Sommeren '92 (2015)) as the group's 'straight man' is wobbly in his acting, SPOILER and the sentimental ending, in which his separated wife takes him back, is pretty thick. Mille Dinesen (Rita (2012-17)) is wasted, but Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner (1982)) is fun to watch as the well-cast villain, and Charlotte Fich (People Get Eaten /Mennesker Bliver Spist (2015)) is also good as the police mama, a role that riffs on her performance in the popular Danish police show Unit One/Rejseholder (2000-04).
Though flawed, All for One is fairly entertaining and will certainly make a Dane laugh, which is clearly its main ambition.

Here is a video from the film's premiere

Cost: 19.5 mil DKK, approximately 3.1 mil. $
Box office: Unknown (but likely around 30 mil. DKK, approximately 4.8 mil. $
= Uncertain (but likely a big flop)
[All for One premiered 10 February (Denmark) and runs 81 minutes. The funding was supported by the Danish Film Institute, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje and TV2. Shooting took place in Aarhus, Jutland in Denmark. The film was a hit in Danish cinemas, where 368,110 bought admission. But it doesn't seem to have had any life outside of Denmark; it is only listed to have been shown at the Hamburg Film Festival. The Danish audience will have generated around 30 mil. DKK, still not enough to rank the film better than big flop status. The 'rules' for hit or flop status are, however, written somehow differently in the state-sponsored movie business in small Denmark, however, where All for One is recognized as a big hit and have resulted in two sequels to date, All for Two/Alle for To (2013) and All for Three/Alle for Tre (2017). The film won the Audience Award Robert, the Danish Oscar equivalent. 1,951 IMDb users have given All for One a 5.7/10 average rating.]

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