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A mix of Twin Peaks (an FBI agent travelling to a small town to solve a murder) and a Murder she wrote episode where Angela Lansbury equivalent (Hans Teeuwen as the special agent of the EMB) bring all players together to point out the murderer with an added sauce of humor as in Pulp Fiction.

In the small town of Spulne (don't pronounce the n!) a few elderly from a monastery are murdered while at the same time most citizens attend the inauguration of the new mayor. The people from the special tasks force EMB, Jackson and Malone, take over the case and dig into what is going on. Malone is haunted by his own past, a journalist is on the case too and what is the role of the mayor's wife?

It is a nice cocktail and entertaining to watch.

As a spectator you need to stay focused as the story jumps back and forth in time in dense and packed dialogues.

From a cinematic perspective this is a fantastic movie. The sound effects of the trinity test, the tension build in the storyline, the acting performances are all great.

The storyline stays close to the actual events and that makes it also very predicable and -dare I say it- a bit boring. There is hardly an element of surprise although Nolan tries to do this with a discussion between Einstein and Oppenheimer in the beginning. I consider it is more a well filmed documentary where some things are dramatized.

Nevertheless, still worth to see in the cinema.