Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

punishmentpark I'm not sure whether I liked this film or not, to be honest. The biggest problem for me lies in the characters (not in the acting per se); Dutch adolescents who are put to the viewer in broad strokes while the story is playing deftly with time and viewpoints. The latter made it kind of intriguing (though the finale is a bit lame), but those 'broad strokes' make the actual drama of it all - the murder itself ánd a believable build-up towards it - not very tangible.More than once I had to think of another film based on a real case of teens that turn against a central figure in their group ('Bully' by Larry Clarke), and how that one díd get under my skin - though it's been a while since I've seen it.My rating should be somewhere in the middle, because it wasn't all that bad.

starcrest-860-227717 There's not much to say about this film other than that the best one can do is to stay as far away from it as one possibly can! This film is extremely, utterly boring. Nothing happens. The dialogue is virtually non-existing, unintelligent, uninteresting and forced. The characters are dull and colorless. They are as interesting as a blank sheet of paper. The film revolves around six young mediocrities who apparently are best friends. None of them are particularly intelligent. One will not find a future notionalist among these kids. They spend their days speaking ill and stab each other in the back,figuratively speaking, and manipulating each other. It is quite incomprehensible that the film has been given such high rating! The only logical explanation must be that, in one way or another, the voters are people involved in the making of the film. Do not watch this piece of trash! AVOID! AVOID! AVOID!

Sterre This movie was partly shot on my high-school, and, having been an extra in it, I was of course looking forward to seeing it. Knowing what the story was about, and prepared for what would probably be a vehement cinema visit, I went to see it with some friends.If I would have to choose one word to describe this film, it would be Wow. I believe this film is able to take away all the skepticism we see in opinions on Dutch movies. This movie is raw, it is honest, and, like my summary above says, above-board. The killing scene is very shocking, it actually affected me physically; my heart was pounding, I almost couldn't believe what I saw. I've only had that with a couple of movies in my life (including "Black Swan" and I believe "Titanic" as well). Man, this is so good...the acting is wonderful on nearly every point of the movie. Having in mind that we're speaking of actors aged 17-21, I feel a lot of admiration for what they've achieved with this film (especially when I realise I wasn't quite a fan of two of them beforehand). Gaite Jansen again proves herself a big acting talent, and I think we can be very proud of having such a beautiful and gifted girl among our Dutch movie stars.One might think: if you loved it so much, why not rate it 10? Well, I rarely ever rate 10, and I didn't do it here, because of a few reasons: at a few points, the dialogues were beside the mark. The director and actors specifically said they wanted to show how such "normal" teenagers like those in the movie can perform such a cruel deed, but for me, the dialogues felt uncomfortable at some points...it seemed to be too jerky, though I won't deny that might also be part of the mechanism this movie wants to show its viewers...the scapegoat mechanism, the story of a group of friends which such derails that a horrific crime is performed.Don't watch this movie if you can't stand shocking images. Like I wrote, this movie is above-board; the killing of Jessie and the liquidating of her body is an 8-minute scene in the movie. Also, the showing of Jessie's inanimate and corrupting body makes one swallow twice. Do watch it if you like good movies, and if you are prepared and willing to let go of your possible sceptical view on Dutch movies. This one's different than quite a lot of the other ones made before.

JvH48 The movie trailer and several reviews in magazines catched my interest, and it arrived at my "must see" list for the Ghent Film Festival 2010. At the end of the screening, though, I was disappointed how the story unfolded. What happened in the dramatic sense stands out, just as it remains a very intriguing course of events. The undercurrent can easily be translated to other situations that can happen to you everyday. This is the main selling point of this movie: demonstrating what harm can be done by mere gossiping, or (even worse) spreading blatant lies about others.I must admit that I have been particularly troubled by the movie format. Every now and then a name appears in bold letters, meaning for the time being that subsequent events are happening from the viewpoint of this person. Net result is that several scenes are shown twice. It gives rise to repeated deja-vu feelings, and is not being helpful in maintaining the attention span. That those repeated scenes are shot from the same camera angle, does not help much either. On the defense, I realize that several important scenes happen within a car, which does not leave much room for creative viewpoints and camera positions.Make no mistake: some deja-vu's are not a problem. Take for instance the scene before the house of the lost girl, when the mother leaves the house to speak with the remaining boys and girls, asking them whether there is any news. This is shown in the beginning as well as in the end of the film. Same with the search party that is shown twice. There is no spoiler here, as we know from the beginning (given the announcement text) that the lost girl has been murdered by their peers.The three boys and three girls who form the main characters of this movie, seem to have one track lives. Their only concern seems mutual attraction and repulsion, interleaved with small and large arguments. However minor on average, these arguments are brought as if they will never speak again with each other, thereby calling the usual names (not repeated here). Neither going to school nor family life seem worth mentioning, other than as wall paper for again another clash. Only one of the boys is an exception, having an invalid mother in a side role, letting him appear to have more than one dimension, but this only seems so in comparison with the others.Maybe, with myself nearly 50 years past their age, I tend to ignore how important those "social" aspects of life were at that time. I may also have forgotten that nothing is so important than relationships within the peer group, and what others think about you. Though there were several invitations to stay the night, don't expect any bed scenes in this movie, or you will be disappointed. Contrary to popular belief, it looks like none of these invitations were actually followed-up.Finally, as an other commentator said (I hope he does not own the copyright for this choice of words), notwithstanding that the Dutch title "Schemer" stands for "Twilight", when literally translated to English, the same title can also be construed to stand for scheme-r or intriguant (like Jago in the opera Othello).