I was expecting a Belgium interpretation of something like Pulp Fiction, but I got a load that was hard to cope with.
I get the story, but only just. There is a psychopat in Wallonia, Belgium. He thinks he is a hitman in America, Callifornia. He has gotten a mission: to kill the 12 followers of lucifer. So we get a movie of 12 absurd chapters of 12 absurd murders with a lot of absurd story telling mixed in.
Doubleplusungood could be described as an homage film, an arthouse film, a European non-commercial film that is tributing to a certain idea of America, land of gore, violence, guns and ofcourse of thriller films with antiheros dealing with the villans. Over the course of the 12 murders, we are following the footsteps of some sort of hyper, cinema-genic cross between an aged and traumatised Robert De Niro and a vintage private detective from a neo noir film.
I have all the respect for small arthouse move directors that spend years filming on an incredibly tight budget, doing production all by themself and having to do with crowd-funding to cover the costs. There has been done a lot with little, some scenes are really really great. But most of this movie is not so great. The story is hard to believe. The character is hard to live with. The audience this move targets, is a form over content minded select group. To me, it's little more then a homage to bad taste...
I get the story, but only just. There is a psychopat in Wallonia, Belgium. He thinks he is a hitman in America, Callifornia. He has gotten a mission: to kill the 12 followers of lucifer. So we get a movie of 12 absurd chapters of 12 absurd murders with a lot of absurd story telling mixed in.
Doubleplusungood could be described as an homage film, an arthouse film, a European non-commercial film that is tributing to a certain idea of America, land of gore, violence, guns and ofcourse of thriller films with antiheros dealing with the villans. Over the course of the 12 murders, we are following the footsteps of some sort of hyper, cinema-genic cross between an aged and traumatised Robert De Niro and a vintage private detective from a neo noir film.
I have all the respect for small arthouse move directors that spend years filming on an incredibly tight budget, doing production all by themself and having to do with crowd-funding to cover the costs. There has been done a lot with little, some scenes are really really great. But most of this movie is not so great. The story is hard to believe. The character is hard to live with. The audience this move targets, is a form over content minded select group. To me, it's little more then a homage to bad taste...
