The 2023 model Mete Gümürhan film produced by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Turkey and Nadir Öpreli.
It is Gümürhan's first big job after the 2016 documentary Young Wrestlers.
Although there are experienced young names such as Lorin Merhart, Hayat Van Eck, Elit Andaç Çam in the lead roles of the movie, the whole scenario is based on Alihan Sahin, who came to our attention with his first movie experience.
The script of the movie was written by Chris Westendorp from the Netherlands, which is where the most important shortcoming of the movie begins.
Our story, which started in Rotterdam, moves to Istanbul because of Zeki's father's work.
The dynamic of the story doesn't suit Turkey at all... (except for the cliche sad dialogue in the last scene)
This scenario should have worked in the opposite direction...
His clever character should have gone from Istanbul to the Netherlands...
Because Zeki is talented in free-run/parkour sports and this culture has no equivalent in Turkey...
When the character's socialization with other characters was built on this, the movie came to a dead end.
There are also a lot of unnecessary scenes. The total of the scenes that serve the script in the 1 hour and 22 minute movie is 25 minutes.
There is an introduction that takes up to 25 minutes at the opening, and we watch the character of Zeki in this entrance, but we only watch it... We haven't even been given enough data to get to know the character.
There are three great actors like Lorin Merhart, Hayat Van Eck, Elit Andaç Çam, but why? Any of the characters they played could have been brought to life, because the character depth in the movie is zero.
This movie may be the worst performances of these three actors' careers. And these three actors speak Dutch and Turkish, so if the story had started in Turkey and continued in the Netherlands, they could have handled it very easily.
Gümürhan had these problems in Young Wrestlers as well, unfortunately they still continue...
Maybe Next Time.
It is Gümürhan's first big job after the 2016 documentary Young Wrestlers.
Although there are experienced young names such as Lorin Merhart, Hayat Van Eck, Elit Andaç Çam in the lead roles of the movie, the whole scenario is based on Alihan Sahin, who came to our attention with his first movie experience.
The script of the movie was written by Chris Westendorp from the Netherlands, which is where the most important shortcoming of the movie begins.
Our story, which started in Rotterdam, moves to Istanbul because of Zeki's father's work.
The dynamic of the story doesn't suit Turkey at all... (except for the cliche sad dialogue in the last scene)
This scenario should have worked in the opposite direction...
His clever character should have gone from Istanbul to the Netherlands...
Because Zeki is talented in free-run/parkour sports and this culture has no equivalent in Turkey...
When the character's socialization with other characters was built on this, the movie came to a dead end.
There are also a lot of unnecessary scenes. The total of the scenes that serve the script in the 1 hour and 22 minute movie is 25 minutes.
There is an introduction that takes up to 25 minutes at the opening, and we watch the character of Zeki in this entrance, but we only watch it... We haven't even been given enough data to get to know the character.
There are three great actors like Lorin Merhart, Hayat Van Eck, Elit Andaç Çam, but why? Any of the characters they played could have been brought to life, because the character depth in the movie is zero.
This movie may be the worst performances of these three actors' careers. And these three actors speak Dutch and Turkish, so if the story had started in Turkey and continued in the Netherlands, they could have handled it very easily.
Gümürhan had these problems in Young Wrestlers as well, unfortunately they still continue...
Maybe Next Time.
