Im Schatten (2010)
Watchable but not reaching the greatness at all
22 September 2022
Warning: Spoilers
The tempo of this movie is kinda slow but will make you keep watching. The structure of the scenarios and the plot are loosely knitted but the cool cast of the leading actor is a surplus. There are moments that you might lose your interest to go on since there's actually not too much going, except car followings in the city; they are not even high-speed chases. The camera work is pretty cool with great angles and lights. It gives you an impression that behind the normal activities of a big city, there's always something illegally going on. I am not keen to the final process, cops just show up at the cabin. Where they got the tips? The crooked detective sit in the car day and night, he doesn't even have to report to his police station? Usually, detectives not working alone, they always have a partner, so where's his partner? How he so miraculously find all the people he wants to tail and always know where his targets would show up and how he so easily to know the unit numbers of his preys, showing up or breaking into without difficulties at all? There are tons of loose and unexplained holes almost in every segment of the movie but the worst part is the final ending. He just keeps driving to somewhere only he knows. Now he suddenly becomes a suspect of a hold-up, multiple murders wanted by the police for nothing, since he escapes the search of the cops at his cabin, he can't even get his bags and guns in time. Why the screenplay writers don't give him a chance to go to that guy who hired killers to kill him?

So the movie just turned out to be a lukewarm going-nowhere thriller. It gave you a hollow feeling when the movie ended, not excited at all.
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