Sure, I'm not a fan of Ronald Giphart's writing. I've never liked any of his books. But I was more than willing to put that aside for a moment and give the movie-adaption a chance.
It took me about 5 minutes to realize that this movie was going to be bad. In retrospect, these first 5 minutes were a blessing, because a good 20 minutes later I just wanted to die. Just to put an end to this fever-ridden nightmare of a movie.
I'm not bothered by nudity, sex and whatever profanity at all, but if done wrong, it just creates an empty feeling of embarrassment. Imagine a hormonal 15-year old, saying out loud every thought that erupts from his horny brain. That's what the 30-something Phileine (Kim v Kooten) in this movie behaves like. I have met quite a variety of people in my life, but I've never met anyone even remotely as horny as the people in this movie. I cringed, seeing how this piece of crap confirms every cliché about dutch cinema. And the worst thing? The writers/creators seem proud if it.
Every line spoken by Phileine is 1. spoken in 200%-speed mode (this seems to be a necessary parameter in most dutch movies for some reason) 2. loaded with a truly embarrassing wish to be funny and cute. Reminds me of that guy on a party failing to be clever; you know what I'm talking about. 3. meta-meta. Yep, the protagonist is looking into the camera, speaking to you directly. In a condescending way, too. It'll knock your socks off!
Like a previous review aptly stated: this movie has overstated and meaningless special fx. It looks like someone just got a new Adobe Premiere update and loves the hell out of it.
I really started laughing when I recognized dutch soap actors posing as Americans. If their horrible acting wouldn't give them away, their big fat dutch accents would. Like.. really?
This movie completely loves itself. I think that's my main problem with it. It's trying to be cool, fast, fresh, funny. Kim van Kooten is an unconvincing actress. She was supposed to be a likable bitch in this movie and she completely failed at that. The rest? I was surprised Michiel Huisman got a leading role in David Simon's brilliant series "Treme". He was horrible in this movie, but then again, everyone was horrible in this movie.
Moviebuffs in the Netherlands are having a hard time with homeland cinema. Very rarely there's a dutch title that is any good. Phileine Zegt Sorry redefines why we are skeptical. This is lesson-material. I'm going out of my way and vote 1/10 for this, just on a mission to bring that rating down. Wish I wouldn't have to.
It took me about 5 minutes to realize that this movie was going to be bad. In retrospect, these first 5 minutes were a blessing, because a good 20 minutes later I just wanted to die. Just to put an end to this fever-ridden nightmare of a movie.
I'm not bothered by nudity, sex and whatever profanity at all, but if done wrong, it just creates an empty feeling of embarrassment. Imagine a hormonal 15-year old, saying out loud every thought that erupts from his horny brain. That's what the 30-something Phileine (Kim v Kooten) in this movie behaves like. I have met quite a variety of people in my life, but I've never met anyone even remotely as horny as the people in this movie. I cringed, seeing how this piece of crap confirms every cliché about dutch cinema. And the worst thing? The writers/creators seem proud if it.
Every line spoken by Phileine is 1. spoken in 200%-speed mode (this seems to be a necessary parameter in most dutch movies for some reason) 2. loaded with a truly embarrassing wish to be funny and cute. Reminds me of that guy on a party failing to be clever; you know what I'm talking about. 3. meta-meta. Yep, the protagonist is looking into the camera, speaking to you directly. In a condescending way, too. It'll knock your socks off!
Like a previous review aptly stated: this movie has overstated and meaningless special fx. It looks like someone just got a new Adobe Premiere update and loves the hell out of it.
I really started laughing when I recognized dutch soap actors posing as Americans. If their horrible acting wouldn't give them away, their big fat dutch accents would. Like.. really?
This movie completely loves itself. I think that's my main problem with it. It's trying to be cool, fast, fresh, funny. Kim van Kooten is an unconvincing actress. She was supposed to be a likable bitch in this movie and she completely failed at that. The rest? I was surprised Michiel Huisman got a leading role in David Simon's brilliant series "Treme". He was horrible in this movie, but then again, everyone was horrible in this movie.
Moviebuffs in the Netherlands are having a hard time with homeland cinema. Very rarely there's a dutch title that is any good. Phileine Zegt Sorry redefines why we are skeptical. This is lesson-material. I'm going out of my way and vote 1/10 for this, just on a mission to bring that rating down. Wish I wouldn't have to.