I found this film unsatisfying. It's a worthy effort by the writer/director with an interesting and original structure
but it's essentially marred by implausibility and lack of psychological depth, which is critical in a thriller. It starts off well with the violent rape of a woman, but then it veers into contrivance and far-fetched territory when her boyfriend a man who has been cool-headed and sensible so far, he is a scientist after all- takes, with the help of a colleague, his brutal revenge on the wrong man, in a long, gruesome scene, in which unbelievably no word is exchanged between the victim who can't imagine why somebody unknown would want to kill him out of the blue- and the aggressor, a man who strangely doesn't feel at any times impelled to verbalize the reason for his revenge before a clearly perplexed man. One of the things I hate when I see a thriller is when characters don't act as normal persons would in such circumstances, when the character who has committed the crime acts stupidly and, because of that, gets caught. That's what happens to the police officer who makes the 'indecent' proposal to the people who killed the wrong man, when he sees that his father-in-law and boss begins to smell a rat. Strangely, he crumbles and practically hands his confession to him, when it was clear that no one would ever find the dead body, and therefore he was in the clear. Also, it's not believable how the father-in-law ties all the loose ends and finds out that the man has been killed and by whom. There are no sufficient grounds to reach that conclusion. No dead body, no motive, no criminal record in the perpetrators. And the ending is completely unbelievable as well, when the father-in-law after all the hard work- burns the money without wanting to know how the man was killed and why, and the killers don't make any effort to explain to him that it was somehow an accidental homicide, that it was afflicted on a man they wrongly thought had been the perpetrator of a rape and that therefore there is a rapist at large. This is all very contrived.
You have the feeling that the characters are pieces on the writer/director's chess set, that he moves them as he pleases in order to get to his predetermined plot milestones, but it doesn't work or ring true, despite the actors' good effort. All the characters, except for the father-in-law, are weak, greedy and selfish, they all seem to be cast in the same mold, without shades. And at the end, for all its original structure, the intricate and meandering plot doesn't amount to much, and you leave the cinema with the feeling of having seen a small story.
You have the feeling that the characters are pieces on the writer/director's chess set, that he moves them as he pleases in order to get to his predetermined plot milestones, but it doesn't work or ring true, despite the actors' good effort. All the characters, except for the father-in-law, are weak, greedy and selfish, they all seem to be cast in the same mold, without shades. And at the end, for all its original structure, the intricate and meandering plot doesn't amount to much, and you leave the cinema with the feeling of having seen a small story.