Van God los Reviews

I already saw this movie but since it was a while back, I was quite eager to check it out again. Well, even though it is still pretty good, to be honest, it didn't impress me as much as it did the first time around. First of all, when I first saw it, my Dutch was not really that great and I had a rather hard time to follow what the characters were saying (the fact that they had a very thick accent/dialect didn’t help either) and I was surprised that, after living for 20 years in this country, I was still struggling to understand what the hell they were saying. At least, there is no doubt that Tygo Gernandt was really great here and he became since then one of the most popular actors in the Netherlands, even though I’m still waiting for something that great coming from him but the guy is definitely a very strong actor. Eventually, the biggest issue with this movie was the fact that, while Gernandt was pretty much pitch-perfect, Egbert Jan Weeber was actually rather weak, I'm afraid. I mean, he did have the right looks but his performance should have been so much more subdued like for example Tahar Rahim in 'Un prophète'. Instead, Weeber kept making some weird faces through the whole duration to express his emotions which was, to be honest, more pathetic than really convincing. Concerning the rest of the movie, it was decent enough and I have to admit that it was at least beter than your average Dutch movie but not much more than that though and it still felt rather cheap. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it is still a very good crime movie and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Dutch movies.