Runtime: 87 minutes
Directed by: Annemarie van de Mond
Starring: Holly Mae Brood, Geza Weisz, Frank Lammers, Noortje Herlaar, Lawrence Sheldon
From: Netflix
Dutch movies exclusively on Netflix can be as mediocre to dismal as the ones from America or anywhere else.
This was watched before looking at Letterboxd to see what the general consensus was; perhaps I should do so from now on. The few that have seen the film have almost uniformly given rather low scores. This was for good reason. Thing is, this action thriller revolving around a young woman who’s a “master hacker” (in fact, so good that she can only type a few keys on the keyboard and not only is the screen filled with code, it quickly scrolls by) but is on the run after being framed via a deepfake—it was not that bad at first.
In fact, imagine my astonishment at hearing the opening credits song: Pigbag’s Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag. I’m not a UK soccer-excuse me, football-hooligan but I’ve known the song for years. Why it was used here? Beats me, yet the movie only went downhill from there. The rest is a cacophony of noise and nonsense involving a random guy our lead Mel B. (yes, that’s how she was identified at one point. No, she wasn’t the Spice Girl) dated once, a mentor, the disbelieving police, the villains, etc.
Those villains & their motivations: “fear-mongering” is the best descriptor I can give without spoiling the whole kit and caboodle. This all felt like a procedural TV show… a bad one at that. This includes the nondescript action, the nonsense story, the mediocre acting, the terrible logic. To steal a line from a mutual, an autonomous driving bus that was hacked can be hacked again by the heroes just by hooking up what looked like a graphics card physically to the bus!
That’s not even factoring in all the unnecessary F-bombs that suddenly appear & never stop. Some of the dialogue is in English so that word is seen/heard in two different languages. I was not happy. Despite the brief 87-minute runtime, there’s no reason to waste your time w/ this motion picture, nor do you even want it on as background noise while folding your laundry, doing your dishes, etc. Even on a platform full of lousy (IMO) movies, others are better for any task, including genuine enjoyment.
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