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May. 25th, 2007 05:06 pm25. Black Book
Entertaining, if too long, spy thriller set in Nazi-occupied Holland. It follows a Jewish woman who joins the Dutch resistance to spy on the German occupiers. There’s plenty of suspense, and for every obvious double-cross there’s two or three unexpected ones, but after the two-hour mark the film starts to drag on. Its slow resolution, combined with a bit of unnecessary cruelty toward the end (typical of Verhoeven, but up until then I was hoping he’d made a movie without sinking to those depths), left me disappointed in an otherwise excellent film.
Entertaining, if too long, spy thriller set in Nazi-occupied Holland. It follows a Jewish woman who joins the Dutch resistance to spy on the German occupiers. There’s plenty of suspense, and for every obvious double-cross there’s two or three unexpected ones, but after the two-hour mark the film starts to drag on. Its slow resolution, combined with a bit of unnecessary cruelty toward the end (typical of Verhoeven, but up until then I was hoping he’d made a movie without sinking to those depths), left me disappointed in an otherwise excellent film.
