Het geheim Reviews

Honestly, I wasn't expecting much from this flick and I was actually planning to watch it with my 6 year old daughter. Eventually, she had already watched it with my wife so I ended up watching it on my own... Basically, it is one of those really tedious Dutch family features. Still, I must admit it, the beginning was actually not bad at all. Indeed, it was some kind of family version of 'The Prestige' and it was actually pretty neat. Unfortunately, as soon as the young girl disappeared, the tone was just wrong and the whole thing became really misguided. Indeed, first you see the audience slowly leaving the building (a girl just disappeared in front of them!), then the police shows up 2 days later (!), the parents of the main character decide they might actually divorce and his school decides to expel him (as if he was responsible for anything...). All this felt wrong and the fact that when you find out what was actually going on, they just keep it as a secret when, in fact, a missing girl is nothing to joke about. I know, you'd probably say that since it is a kids flick, I shouldn't take it so seriously but I don't agree. The material was actually pretty good but they just messed it up. To conclude, it is yet another average Dutch family feature and I don't think it is really worth a look, even if you are interested in Dutch movies like me.