The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Bloody Well Should Have Disappeared

If it were up to me this would be called ‘The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window, Fell, and Was Never Heard From Again’ as this way we’d be out of the cinema in two minutes flat, no hard feelings. Alternatively, if The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared had actually disappeared, then I could have lived with that. But, no, the 100-year-old is in every frame, more or less, and this is a 100-year-old who will quickly get on your wick, just as the film itself will get on your wick. Based on the Swedish bestseller of the same name, by Jonas Jonasson, it’s a monotonous, one-note caper that will have you wishing: OK, so he doesn’t fall, but couldn’t he change his mind, and just climb back in?

Our hero is Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson), a retired explosives expert who, tired of living in a nursing home, climbs out of the window on his 100th birthday, and effectively does a runner, even though it’s more of a shuffle.