Personally I loved the movie. When I started watching it by coincidence I did not expect much from it, but after half an hour I was so entranced by it I watched the whole thing from the beginning to the end. So when I came to check the reviews I was in for a shock. People complained about a lot of things. I do agree on some points, but others I found completely ridiculous.
First, some people said that nothing happened and that the movie was boring. Well apparently we were not watching the same movie, since you could observe the endless intrigue and machinations of Klaas. Yes, it is long winded from time to time, but then again a lot of people nowadays have the attention span of a five year old so I can understand that watching a movie with a lot of dialog and not a lot of action can be extremely hard for them. So if you are one of them I recommend you to watch Transformer movies and the like, I think those are perfect for the modern viewer.
Second, some have said that this movie theme: "The life of a drug lord" is not well developed and could be presented better. The real theme of the movie is far from this however. Trust is in the spotlight and the struggle between trusting and betraying is well presented. I really liked the scene when he jumps down from the top of the stairs as a kid and his father below lets him fall and tells him to never trust anyone. This shows why he is so hellbent on trusting people. But as he is betrayed by more and more people he realizes that his father was right, so his defeat at the end is a personal defeat against his father and not a defeat towards the world.
Other than that I more or less agree with other reviewers. People should take into consideration that film in Europe developed into one of the arts, while in America the film developed into an industry. Whole there is nothing wrong with that, this still affect the movies and their structure, so I think that people should be more understanding towards European cinematography.
First, some people said that nothing happened and that the movie was boring. Well apparently we were not watching the same movie, since you could observe the endless intrigue and machinations of Klaas. Yes, it is long winded from time to time, but then again a lot of people nowadays have the attention span of a five year old so I can understand that watching a movie with a lot of dialog and not a lot of action can be extremely hard for them. So if you are one of them I recommend you to watch Transformer movies and the like, I think those are perfect for the modern viewer.
Second, some have said that this movie theme: "The life of a drug lord" is not well developed and could be presented better. The real theme of the movie is far from this however. Trust is in the spotlight and the struggle between trusting and betraying is well presented. I really liked the scene when he jumps down from the top of the stairs as a kid and his father below lets him fall and tells him to never trust anyone. This shows why he is so hellbent on trusting people. But as he is betrayed by more and more people he realizes that his father was right, so his defeat at the end is a personal defeat against his father and not a defeat towards the world.
Other than that I more or less agree with other reviewers. People should take into consideration that film in Europe developed into one of the arts, while in America the film developed into an industry. Whole there is nothing wrong with that, this still affect the movies and their structure, so I think that people should be more understanding towards European cinematography.