I artikkelen Norway in Action roser Wall Street Journal bølgen av nye norske sjangerfilmer. Artikkelen tar tak i Kommandør Treholt og Ninjatroppen, som et av flere eksempel på hvordan endringer i de offentlige støtteordningene har gitt større rom for unge filmskapere med originale sjangerfilm-ideer.

“Norwegian Ninja, written and directed by a 39-year-old former advertising executive named Thomas Cappelen Malling, is just about everything you can imagine. Hilarious and menacing, absurd and insightful, it is a novice work by a first-time director — at times, almost a shot in the dark — and an accomplished work of genre filmmaking that authoritatively upends the cold-war spy thriller. It is also a signature creation of Norway’s newly thriving film industry, which is promising to place film alongside oil and salmon as one of the country’s most reliable export items.”

Flere norske filmskapere er intervjuet i artikkelen bl.a. Joachim Trier, Liv Ullmann og Espen Sandberg.