Vares: Private Eye (2004)

Original title

Vares – Yksityisetsivä

Directed by

Aleksi Mäkelä

Genre

action film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

K-16

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A private detective in Turku, Finland takes on a case involving a large sum of dirty money. He follows the leads through a dangerous criminal underworld.

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What happens

Vares: Private Eye (Finnish: Vares – yksityisetsivä) is a 2004 Finnish crime film directed by Aleksi Mäkelä. It is based on the eleventh Vares novel Keltainen leski (1999) by Reijo Mäki. The setting is Turku, a city on the west coast of Finland. It stars Juha Veijonen as private detective Jussi Vares who investigates a case involving a large amount of dirty money. The film is the first of nine films in the Vares series. The first sequel, V2: Dead Angel, was released in 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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