I just came back from the movie, unsatisfied as I'm speaking. The story has been told a thousand times before, the end was very dissapointing, and they could have done much better with the atmosphere -which is in my opinion the strongest concept of the film- It started out very well, with a great opening scene, some nice visual shots grab you with the story, but then the drawback comes....the humor, the Werner desmedt, the unnecessary conversations between the two investigators and the police, completely out of place.....which really put you out of the atmosphere. I would say "p***ing on someone's car, so they smell on it and can laugh with it".....completely ridiculous in my opinion, really doesn't belong in a movie like this. For most people, the movie was good because of the innovative cinematography in Belgian films, but that doesn't do it for me. In my opinion also, the movie is too much based on Decleir, like the flashbacks he gets after his killing, it gave me great moments....but I'm so unsatisfied because they didn't do anything with him at the end....The movie unfolds slowly with a very dissapointing end...I was screaming but I didn't get an echo. The whole characterisation of Jan Decleir adds nothing at the end....Alzheimer....does not add a single value to this film....on what themes is this movie based on?? Child prostitution? Revenge? I dunno....The movie could have gone mystery, because of the atmosphere (with the nice cinematography) or it could have gone a real cop-story...which it did....but it failed at both miserably, don't kill me yet, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either.... They would have done much better if the characterisation of the murderer comes to an emotional end...but they just let him die... There so much wrong about the movie I can't explain...but then....that's just me
7/10
7/10