Exklusiv

Everybody in Switzerland talked about this movie when it started... "Hollywoodlike action" and so on.... So I made the big error and watched this **** in cinema!! It's a pure waste of time when "Heidi" tries to go to Hollywood... *lol*

Bad actors in a bad movie... The whole story is ridiculous and the whole work a big disappointment... The only good thing in this case is the feeling of felicity, when the movie's over and your not dead of boredom.

A new hope for switzerland?? Dream on - I really don't think so....

Swiss cheese has much more power than "Exklusiv"!! :-)

In "Exklusiv" a reckless journalist is blackmailed and threatened by a murderer. What's really great about the movie is that it got made. It's the only Swiss feature film I know, that didn't rely on governement funding.

But what you see is what you get and in "Exklusiv" that isn't really much. Even though the style is rather well copied from Hollywood thrillers, the story presented is rather thin. The movie lacks depth and relies to much on good cinematography. All the same, it's nice to see a Swiss movie.

After homicide of a politician's daughter, a mysterious voice informes a yellow press reporter by phone about time and place of the next assassination attempt. Remarkable debut of Swiss director Florian Froschmeyer with excellent camera-work, stylish pictures but a too fragmentary story. Copies the style of his examples (as Se7en) but never their complexity.

The first half of the movie is rather a funny experience, though, I'm afraid, only residents will appreciate it (let's face it, there isn't a lot of american-type action movies made in Switzerland...) As a matter of fact, the movie isn't able to surprise the audience more than once, though the cast is giving a reasonable acting. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't work neither as a media thriller as it was conceived to be by the film makers nor as an action movie because of the lack of story (i.e. the story's looking all the time for itself...). The portray of the murderer is by ways too thin.

Swiss movies always have a BAD reputation - and usually they deserve so! EXKLUSIV however was made by a bunch of young movie lovers who put their sweat, spare time and money in a project they believed in. The result is a fast going low budget media-thriller which is surprisingly entertaining. It's the story of two tabloid reporters that get too involved in a mystery murder series. The usual Swiss movies storyline "father-hits-child-on-a-mountain-top-and-gets-it-after-for-good" is completely missing here. And it's about time! For years Swiss films where produced for a small audience with special interests. EXKLUSIV on the other hand may very well have some potential on the international independent market. It was produced without any financial help from the government, which is absolutely new for Switzerland. So, here we have a movie which is made for a younger American-oriented audience, but is still undeniably Swiss.

Let's hope that other young filmmakers will follow Florian Froschmayers brave example and finally produce some movies which keep you awake for two hours. EXKLUSIV is the proof: It can be done - even in Switzerland!