Fillm critic and journalist for the Nederlands Dagblad (Dutch Daily) and Evangelische Omroep. But most of all: all round film enthusiast.
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Get Away 2024
Basically what you would get when you hand over a pretty solid idea to a teenager with a camera. There's fun to be had, but it never manages to fulfil its promise. At a certain point the film reveals itself as a full blooded horror comedy. However: the jokes rely solely on the same principle: slitting throats is funny. Which it can be, but for it to stay funny all the way to the end credits, you need more than…
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Thangalaan 2024
There is fun to be had with the solid action scenes, bad effects and muddied messaging, but it also overlong and not silly or action packed enough to stay entertaining throughout. I did watch the directors cut, so perhaps that is less so in the theatrical version. And of course, as a western viewer I have a tin ear for anything that doesn't neatly follow a heroes journey in a thight three act structure, so there's also that.
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Black Lotus 2023
Een actiefilm zonder actie. Slechts vijf minuten is Black Lotus was het negentig minuten had moeten zijn: Jan Wick. De rest is clichematige en oersaaie vulling.
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