Penoza: The Final Chapter (2019)
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Duration: 116 minuten
Alternative titles: Penoza de Film / Penoza / Black Widow
Country:
Netherlands / Canada
Directed by: Diederik van Rooijen
Stars: Monic Hendrickx, Olga Zuiderhoek and Raymond Thiry
IMDb score:
6,1 (2.117)
Releasedate: 28 November 2019
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Penoza: The Final Chapter plot
"The Black Widow is not dead ... and she have to deal with her past to save her family."
The Black Widow is not dead… Drug queen Carmen van Walraven is in hiding in Canada where she leads an anonymous life. She stays out of everything until one evening a colleague is harassed and Carmen has no choice but to help her. In self-defense she kills the perpetrator, is arrested and extradited to the Netherlands. While her children are in shock that their mother is still alive, there are also some people who still have an open account with Carmen. Everyone is again dragged into an emotional rollercoaster where the problems pile up rapidly. Carmen will now have to finally deal with her past to save her family.
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Actors and actresses
Carmen van Walraven-de Rue
Natalie van Walraven
Boris van Walraven
Lucien van Walraven
Nicolaas Luther
Sandrina Breusink-Ritchie
Evert
Berry Reitens
Dwayne
Reviews & comments
TimF
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- 284 messages
- 397 votes
Was looking forward to this film adaptation of one of my favorite Dutch series. The Final Chapter certainly doesn't disappoint, but to call it a masterpiece would be going too far.
Strong scenes, good acting and beautiful images are interspersed with illogical storylines.
The tension is good and the Penoza paradox between crime/violence and a peaceful family life is omnipresent. Features toddlers used as living shields and held at gunpoint with sniper rifles.
I didn't think the underwater scenes were entirely successful, the scene in the Olympic stadium somewhat unnecessary.
Other large-scale scenes are cool. Unforgettable are the scenes in which 'Boortje' snipes a platoon of agents from their motorcycles and the fight scenes in which Luther, as a kind of silent Ninja, kills two men. The liberation of Carmen was one of the highlights for me. Furthermore, a nice reunion with different characters, although I would have given Berry a slightly more sympathetic role
Perhaps the director needs a little too much time and words to tell the story to the climax;
The final scene in which Carmen dies is intense and comes in well, especially when the coffin of Carmen - and thus the final end of the series - comes into view. Not exactly a happy ending. The director then tries to rectify this with a posthumous video message from Carmen, but that only partially works.
A must-see for fans, The Final Chapter packs enough suspense and action for new viewers willing to see through the improbabilities of the story. Who is not prepared for that... Put Luther on it.
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mrklm
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- 11659 messages
- 10059 votes
Admittedly, I haven't seen a minute of the series. But that's not necessary to recognize an abysmal scenario that is alternately unintentionally hilarious and cringingly melodramatic. The prologue sets the tone: the wife of a Mexican cartel leader waits for the coffin to stand in the hall of their villa and then, in the presence of her two young daughters, puts a bullet through the head. Then we see that Carmen [Monic Hendrickx] has ended up in Canada and lives an anonymous life there as a waitress in a roadhouse. After the first of far-fetched, often ridiculous twists and turns. Carmen is deported to the Netherlands to stand trial for crimes for which, according to the detective who has apparently been chasing her for years, they have no direct evidence. So hope for a confession, but there are foreign criminals who want to put a stop to that.
I soon got the feeling that I was watching a Dutch counterpart of The Naked Gun, because the idiotic script is played completely seriously by the quite seasoned cast. Try to hold back your laughter when Carmen's lawyer shows a video that no one else is allowed to see, especially the police. Prison might not be the most convenient place to get that message across, right? But the absolute highlight comes in the final when Aad Peeters makes a cameo as Bulletje, it was almost impossible to laugh any longer to withhold. Yet I turned out to have sufficient perseverance to 'be allowed' to see the 3 (!) weak endings. I can hope that the series had considerably better screenwriters, otherwise it is very sad for the Dutch TV audience. A serious contender for worst movie of the year.
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starbright boy (moderator films)
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- 22474 messages
- 5144 votes
Because I've seen all five seasons, I turned Netflix on when I saw that the movie was on it.
I certainly didn't like the series as much as is often said here, but although the first three seasons were quite repetitive in terms of structure, they were quite doable and I had a good time with it at the time. When the original writers left after season 3 Stopping it was also immediately noticeable because the series became a lot less credible and also less good. But compared to this film, season 4 (the season the film mainly builds on) was almost hyper-realistic.
The film has a completely crazy nonsense script and at times flies so hard that Penoza -The Final Chapter becomes unintentionally funny the escape scene in the Olympic stadium for example or the pieces in the court). Also, the characters have never been so superficial as here. Most have been reduced to one or two characteristics (Luther is no longer a shadow of what he once was for example) or even none at all (Lucien was in the series, but was also relegated there to colorless supporting role and is really completely characterless here ). And then I'm not even talking about Van Zon, not exactly the best character in the series, but in this film Peter Blok plays an unintended parody of that. Penoza is no longer driven by characters, but by locations and idiotic plot twists and poorly written dialogues.
It's good that Carmen is really dead now, because I would have mistaken her for Penoza: The Widow Returns, although I do read about a prequel about Luther again.
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