THE first thing they teach in spy school is never to fall in love with somebody on the other side because you may be called on to fire a bullet into that person’s forehead.
In the Danish thriller “Flame & Citron,” set during the Nazi occupation of Denmark in 1944, resistance fighter Flame (red-haired hunk Thure Lindhardt) encounters just such a problem when he meets a mysterious woman named Ketty (Stine Stengade), who seems to be working for both sides at the same time.
Flame and his partner Citron (Mads Mikkelsen) are a successful hit team that knocks off Nazis and their Danish supporters with great abandon.
As directed by Ole Christian Madsen, the thriller features well-choreographed shootouts and assassinations. But the script is too melodramatic and complicated for its own good.
In Danish, with English subtitles. Running time: 130 minutes. Not rated (violence, sex, nudity). At the Sunshine and the Lincoln Plaza.