Escort (2006) User Reviews

'Indecent Proposal', eat your heart out!

[PanteraRosa · 27 May 2006]

This movie starts out with more or less the same premise 'Indecent Proposal' (1993) does. A young (in this case unmarried) couple of which the woman is offered a fortune by an older man in return for her 'services'.

The difference is, this is not a boring daytime soap only made to make female viewers ponder about living life in luxury and their male counterparts hoping to see the lead actress in the nude. This is a decent (pun intended) thriller in which you DO care about the characters and their struggles to save their relationship rocked by the strain that sudden wealth and staying wealthy causes them.

During the last 15 minutes I was increasingly afraid to be disappointed with a conventional (i.e. Hollywood) ending, but thankfully I was pleasantly surprised by a sudden twist that topped it off.

Rifka Lodeizen, who showed in 'Simon' (2004) that she was ready for a lead role gave a great performance, as did Bastiaan Ragas.

8/10

Corny and overrated

[galahad26 · 1/10 · 24 August 2020]

A few days ago I saw this film on TV. I was flabbergasted that this has actually won best TV-drama and was nomintaed for best screenplay. The film is full of clichees. A golddigger is after the 6M of a rich man who suffers from cancer. Once she has the money she attracts the wrong boyfriend. In the end she decides to donate the money to a cancer institute. Yawn. The plot is so unbelievably predictable and moralistic. And the ending in particular, with her carrying a brand new flightcase where the audience should think she carries a gun to kill her boyfriend. If you indeed want to kill someone, who on earth would carry such a flightcase? And why is her boyfriend not asking about it, when they meet? And when it turns out to be binoculars to show the cancer institute in the distance...why carrying it in such a flightcase? It just doesn't make sense and is only there to put the audience on the wrong foot. The character build up is a mess and in no way you get involved with the character. This is a film made by a lazy filmmaker. Too happy with himself. Ketelaar does have talent as he also made a wonderful short film Vijf Uur Eerder. Seems like the filmmaker lost his spirit to tell original stories a long time ago. And the fact that Escort is awarded best drama says everything about the state of filmmaking in The Netherlands.