Remmy-2

Loved, loved, loved seasons 1 and 2. Best thing I've ever seen on HBO. Season 3 though... it's getting boring. Nothing happens. People says it's a bit harder to 'get into', but I'm at episode 5 and still bored. The director seems to be trying all the 'tricks' from episodes 1 & 2, but it's not working anymore. Music is not as good. The script is bad, nothing happens... no surprises. The CGI monkeys are really bad, I don't understand why they couldn't use real footage of monkeys as there's no special 'tricks' or anything they're doing. Really disappointing. The manager in S3 is supposed to be 'weird', but it's just awkward and is not convincing. There's too much repetition, it's getting to be tedious and I hope there's at least a bit of a surprise womewhere in the next 3 episodes.

This is a terrible movie with a thin plot. I didn't fint it 'erotic' at all and I don't think it is a 'feminist' movie. Don't let the filming location (New York), the international star cast (Nicole Kidman and Anotnio Banderas) and the language (English) fool you: this is just a typical bad Dutch movie!

Dutch movies are characterized by:

• the desire to shock
• thin plots
• cursing

Unfortunately Halina does not seem to have the ability to produce a proper film. This is just a wanna-be arthouse version of 50 Shades of Grey. Very bad! Don't waste your time or money on this... this is 2 hours of my life I will never get back!

Gave it two stars for the beautiful costumes and locations, but as a whole the movie was very disappointing. As a Dutchman I'm used to never watch Dutch movies because they're usually crap. I had better expectations this time because Michiel van Erp usually makes good (television) productions.

To sum things up:

• The dialogues are not convincing, it sounds more like stage actors reading lines
• Little / no chemistry between the actors
• Plot line so thin it's embarrassing
• Story doesn't 'unfold', it's just the same thing repeating itself over and over.

• Historical inaccuracy: it's the 18th century and some things just don't make sense, the way people behave and talk to each other, etc.

I'm guessing they went for English instead of Dutch to try to get a bigger audience, which is OK, but the overall feeling I get is it is 'too Dutch'. Dutch movies aren't usually very good, I never understand why, probably because there's just a very small audience for them, and that audience isn't really very critical. The result is that Dutch producers are used to always getting 'wonderful' reviews for things that are totally crap.

In the end watching it became agonizing, my friend and I were almost desperate at the end of the 1:50 hrs. As nothing seemed to unfold in the movie. I snoozed off a couple of times and don't seem to really have missed anything.