An average movie

About a year ago, I saw 'Sint', Dick Maas's previous directing effort, and even though the concept seemed to be promising, the whole thing turned out to be massively disappointing. Well, since Dick Maas is probably, after Paul Verhoeven, the most successful Dutch film director, at least, commercially speaking, I was still eager to see what he would do next, even if I was rather cautious this time around. Well, fortunately, he managed this movie to deliver a decent thriller. Indeed, once again, he came up with a neat concept, some kind of mix between 'The Game' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' and there was definitely some potential. Eventually, the main issue was that the scope was just too small, I'm afraid. I mean, basically, try to imagine if 'The Game' would take place only on one location or if in 'Slumdog Millionaire', each time they would ask a question, the main character would simply give us his answer without providing a flashback to show us exactly what happened. I wish they also removed most of the humor (the Italian restaurant owner for example was rather cringe-inducing). To conclude, in spite of its flaws,  it was still a decent watch, at least it was much better than most of the recent movies directed recently by Dick Maas and I think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Dutch movies.

6/10