The Memory of a Killer
The Memory of a Killer
R | 25 September 2005 (USA)
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Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. Since Ledda starts showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, it's getting more and more difficult to complete his contracts. When he has to murder a 12-year old call-girl, he refuses and becomes a target himself. While Vincke and Verstuyft are chasing him and counting the corpses, Ledda is taking care of his employers.

Reviews
Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable
Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
mgdanimals Alzheimer's disease and dementia can both be fought using natural methods. When my 86 year old grand-aunt developed it, I searched for a long time to try and find a way to help her cure it without expensive medicines, and stumbled upon Brain Revitalizer (Here's a good review of it: http://steamspoils.com/brain-revitalizer-review ) I''ve been the primary caregiver for her and her dementia/Alzheimer's for the past nine years. She was 86 and fading away by inches and by bit and pieces when I found the book. It was so unbelievably cruel and torturous to watch someone who was an excellent teacher and active lover of life be whittled away by this hideous disease a tiny bit at a time. Since she started reading this book, she has been slowly but SURELY improving her mental health each and every day. She can remember details much better now! I now HIGHLY recommend the book to anyone fighting Alzheimer's and dementia- and the best part is that the book can be used by the sufferer even in the comfort of their own home.
Bene Cumb De Zaak Alzheimer is a decent crime thriller where "mandatory" elements (dead bodies, shootings, explosions, chases) are in place, but a serious mental illness of a bad guy provides interesting and distinct opportunities to move beyond a trivial cat-and-mouse play. Moreover, flashbacks and retrospects are not annoying/over-exploited, but just in the right place at the right time. The ending is also multiple, not single. However, the inclusion of child abuse issue was probably undue as it is so sensitive issue in Belgium.The cast is rather strong, but not all the characters are elaborated, especially those of policemen. Thus, the catchiest was Jan Decleir as Angelo Ledda, whose making out in different circumstances was interesting to follow. Nevertheless, the film is a pleasant difference from Hollywood crime thrillers, with many nice similarities with Scandinavian ones. Recommended for a broader, different picture.
Cristi_Ciopron All the movies about a tough and doomed man (who is often an outlaw) that is under straitened circumstances,cornered, hunted,need a strong actor:he is Mickey Rourke,or Russell Crowe,or Gabin,Montand, Bogart, Bronson, Kitano--this rank of actors;De Zaak Alzheimer has Jan Decleir as Angelo Ledda,a ferocious,sinister hit-man.Erik Van Looy brings a welcome stream of realism in this class of story. An old and gravely ill assassin,Angelo Ledda,accepts another job, and he murders a businessman,Bob Van Camp (played by Lucas Van Den Eijnde),then he takes away the corpse.An young inspector,Eric Vincke (i.e.,Koen De Bouw),who just dismantled, in a thrilling operation,the business of a father who was trading his own daughter,turning his home into a brothel for pedophiles,must now find the missing Van Camp,whose wife (Els Dottermans) has not a very good opinion about her now disappeared husband.Erik Van Looy's fast paced movie switches from Vincke's itinerary (the pimp's apartment;Van Camp's disappearing;Van Camp's wife;Vincke's chief and colleagues: Tom Coemans and Linda De Leenheer and Freddy Verstuyft,etc.) to Angelo Ledda's:we see the old-man taking a new job,traveling through Anvers,fighting with Bob Van Camp,then almost being caught unawares by his victim's daughter;then,Angelo Ledda visiting his brother, accepting another job,meeting the girls he must now kill,then refusing to murder her,etc.).A very special and notable feature of The Alzheimer Case is its striking and impressing display:the scenes,the characters,the plot,and even the ordinary retorts,the casual lines exchanged by the characters ( Vincke and his mates speaking about a colleague's bottom (that is,Hilde De Baerdemaeker's bottom),or about their chief,or about cars and insurances,and Vincke colliding with the policeman).We are spared from love affairs.The cast is excellent,and the main villain,a Baron (Baron Gustave De Haeck) is,as the political correctness claims it,a very pious Catholic,so the fashionable strong dose of anti-catholicism is delivered promptly by Erik Van Looy.The characters,and the cast,have beautiful names.
Armand Dark film, subtle construction of atmosphere, special thriller and ash taste. Exploration of social realities, illusions and justice, fights against shadows and fall of a career.It is a different crime film because, in all story, the mixture between American instruments to be cool and the science to discover the action as a spectacular puzzle is proof of a refined art to suggest deep gestures and nuances of fear. The memories of some sexual Belgian scandals, the politic life as secret cage, the noble desire of an old killer, the lights, music and precision of director's art moves the classical recipes in a intelligent movie- source for reflection.Anatomy of society, skin of terrible sick, search of truth and lies like refuge, Anvers in strong lights and deep sequences, this film is pledge for fundamental values recognition.