The Guilty (2021)

This American remake of the one-man, one-night, confined-space Danish thriller about an emergency service telephone operator trying to save a kidnapped woman, suffers the same problems as the original film with the decisions and actions of the main character so poor that a more appropriate title would have been 'The Incompetent', but I think this American remake takes the unpleasant little crime drama and better establishes the reason for Jake Gyllenhall's character's poor choices, including his heightened state of anxiety over some kind of formal hearing that is taking place at the end of his shift.

★★☆☆☆

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The Guilty (Den Skyldige) (2019)

This 'man on the phone' thriller like Locke does a good job of maintaining viewer interest in its tightly confined sphere of action (throughout the movie, the camera is trained on police officer Asger Holm's end of a series of phonecalls made to the emergency services) but the plotting is not so well done - you don't have to be a great detective to see what our man-on-the-phone can't or to see that propelling the verbal action is a show of such sheer and utter incompetence, The Incompetent might have been a better title.

★★☆☆☆

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