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Wolf (2013)
Boring, pretentious and illogical
If you are wondering what this movie is about. Just watch the movie and you'll keep wondering for more then two hours. To me, the movie was about a director falling in love with the main actor Majid. Just a followup of scenes of Majid walking the stairs up, Majid walking the stairs down, Majid eating his oatmeal, Majid working' out, Majid showing his muscles, Majid making love, Majid getting angry, Majid happy, Majid working out, .Majid in a cool leather jacket, Majid talking, Majid walking, Majid taking control... well you can fill in the dots. And it consumes too much time on those kind of scenes, that don't add any value to the story. The director also forgets that there are other actors in the movie. A friend of Majid develops from a small time bicycle thief to a straight up Dead President meet Heat kinda gangster almost overnight. The movie was so slow, it makes No Country for Old Men look like a fast paced car chase flick. I kept hoping for Chigurg popping' out and doing his thing to save the movie. You know a movie becomes bad when you stop caring about the story, characters or character development and start wishing for it to end. The movie is also illogical. It tries to be realistic, but uses a deus ex Majida every time, whose a superman, an unbeatable kick boxer, expert marksman and superb lover. I has an open end, but it feels like an open story. You wait for the story to begin, but it never does. The actor who plays Majid ain't that bad, he's really good. But just too pretentious. Only teenage girls, whom couldn't decide between the Edward vs. Jacob camp will enjoy this movie. And people who suffer from a dormant racial guilt and like to see a Maroccan thrive in a dutch movie.
De poel (2014)
Nice try, but still far from good
A nice try for a horror movie. There has never been a dutch scary movie that actually was scary. Compared to the rest of them, this movie is a masterpiece. It almost gives you a scare and its first 35 minutes are entertaining minutes. Then it unfolds to be a'the shining' wannabe. All the characters become unlikable. The motives are weird and unprovoked. The movie becomes predictive. And after an hour of watching you start to lose interest to see the end. It's just follow-up of nice shot scenes, but no overall story. The acting isn't that bad. I wouldn't recommend this movie for anybody looking for a entertaining evening. Because there wasn't any nude in the movie, something that we dutch always find functional, I can't give this more then a solid 4. Not really bad, but still far from good.