Quiz (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 85 minuten
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Dick Maas
Stars: Barry Atsma, Pierre Bokma and Hanna Verboom
IMDb score:
6,0 (2.001)
Releasedate: 22 March 2012
Actors and actresses
Leo van der Molen
De Man
Sandra
Louise
Monica
Gerben
Max
Paparazzi Journalist
Regisseur
Vrouw op feest
Reviews & comments
Drulko Vlaschjan
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- 495 messages
- 432 votes
I am a benevolent viewer - or try to be - but my leniency is no match for such clumsiness. Initially I had the idea to watch a (failed) parody of the genre. In the end it seemed to me to be a more or less serious attempt at an exciting thriller.
There is not one specific thing that bothered me, it was more the sum of all those small and big mistakes, the easy-going script, the poor acting of Atsma (Bokma was very strong, although I had seen it after a while with his character), Bokma's predictable motive, etc.
A few examples: Bokma could not possibly have arranged everything in the short time between the kidnapping and his entrance to the restaurant; the police were amazingly trigger-happy; it was unlikely that Bokma came out of the fight virtually unscathed, Bokma managed to bypass the hospital security without being explained, the assistant went with the ME into the van, the girl who had killed Atsma had, as it turned out at the end, crossed the highway running (?!) and Atsma had only had a tiny drink - as if the scriptwriters at the end suddenly realized that he had to appear sympathetic and so only a bizarre emergency grip had to be cycled in.
My favorite was the moment when the ME finds a truck on the Bokma site.
"Hey, a truck was stolen, wasn't it?"
'We found them with this one!'*
As if
a) the riot police would be aware of the missing truck and
b) there are not 136,000 trucks in the Netherlands
Did we still laugh?
The 'Italian' accent of Guiseppe/Marck Oostra was really not possible. Then cast an Italian Dutchman.
(*quotes from memory)
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
The self-righteous quizmaster Leo van der Molen [Barry Atsma] has just recorded a popular quiz show for the last time and has decided to take a year off with his wife Sandra [Kim van Kooten] and his 12-year-old daughter Monica [Susan Radder]. But the dinner they have planned together at an Italian restaurant takes a bleak turn when a scruffy dressed man [Pierre Bokma] approaches him. Leo tries to brush the man off, until he makes it clear that he is holding Sandra and Monica somewhere. The only way Leo can see his wife and daughter again is by playing a quiz that follows the format and rules of his own game show! Dick Maas wrote the screenplay that is full of unexpected, dramatic turns and contains a pleasant dose of ironic humour, but it is Bokma who takes this thriller to a particularly high level with his unforgettable interpretation of a man whose true nature and the motives for his actions remain a mystery to the absolute end. Maas' best film since De Lift unfortunately seriously cuts itself in the end with with a forced (and as far as I'm concerned completely unnecessary) happy ending that gives the impression at the last moment to be pasted behind.
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jordandejong
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- 4774 messages
- 1432 votes
Not so surprising that this flopped in cinemas. Even I as a Maas fan couldn't do much with this. You also have to come from a very good background if you want to keep a film that largely takes place at a table in a restaurant interesting. Maas does not come from such good houses.
However, much of the film is still quite nice. There is still quite a bit of mystery and the character of Pierre Bokma is intriguing. Good casting choice. If this had been a miscast, you'd be throwing away your entire film, as it were.
After an hour it starts to get a bit less. We are familiar with that hassle at that table, and not much later it actually flies even more out of the way and it becomes one in a pile of unbelievable things, plot holes, continuity errors .. whatever you want to call them. There are also other craziness (the dramatic Dutch rendition of the Italian restaurant owner Giuseppe, the police and arrest team who come across as clownish, etc).
Nice premise, but it doesn't make for a very good film unfortunately. Bokma steals the show.
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