Troll (2022, Norway) is currently streaming on Netflix. The film is in Norwegian, with English subtitles, except for a scene towards the beginning which involves a group of American researchers and everyone speaks English.
While trying to expand a tunnel project, mysteriously abandoned decades before, an explosion seems to awaken a giant creature that begins to ransack the countryside. A scientist called in by the government believes that research done by her father (now considered mentally unstable) could help supply the answer. Initially skeptical the politicians and military eventually have to accept the fact that a giant troll is now moving toward Oslo for an unknown reason.
The nicely done horror film is fun with mostly effective CGI used for the creature. As with a lot of these rampaging monster films, you often end up having more sympathy for the creature than the 'let's blow it up because we can' establishment. This film, like many of the other movies that deal with the Troll mythos, uses much of the same legends and known weaknesses we've seen before.
The one hour and forty + minute run time goes by pretty quickly and doesn't drag as much as similar films.
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