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A sublime rollercoaster made with inventive and original cinematic points of view. Delicious Belgian low budget that outclasses Tarantino and Fast and Furious. Too bad for the English market (and the rest of the world) that the Antwerp language cannot be translated. Deep respect to Jonas and crew for this delightful film pleasure.

The first 5 minutes after very promising.

A new actor, a .nice car. A man in a mission to be a good daddy and not to drift away to the narrow road.

But there is not a real coherent story, plotholes the size of Vlaanderen, a very short meaningless role by Frank Lammers. The movie isn't really going anywhere and it ends nowhere. Every cliche is being used in abundance. But where the French movie Taxi succeeds in creating a energizing franchise , this is a black hole of movie cliches, bad acting. Go visit Antwerp, get a taxi and take a nice drive. Avoid this mess like the plaque. Don't watch it!

80 minutes pure adrenaline from Antwerp in one of the most surprising movies of the year so far. An over the top rollercoaster. It helps if you have some knowledge of the Antwerp dialect and it also available to know a little about some Belgium political affairs to understand some of the surprising depth which is hidden in this not so subtile movie. The car, I don't know if Lexus was happy with this way of advertising, is used as the point of view of the camera and that really works. The acting, especially from the Flemish actors is superb, but it really starts with the 5 minutes Dutch actor. Frank Lammers makes his short entrance. Only dissonant Mobic Hendricks as Miss Brasschaat.

No pun intended - especially because you may think of something different than what I mean. Point of ... car is what my summary stands for. And it is because of the movie being inside ... for most of the time. And even when we go outside it has something to do with the car ... like a shot from a part of the car ... reflections and all that.

The main character is played by a Greek and he seems to be "connected" to his car ... like a lot! Don't get it wrong: he loves his girlfriend and his daughter at least as much as the car ... he also knows a bit Greek, though grammatically speaking he is not on top of his game.

A lot of swearing, a lot of action ... combined they make quite the fun movie. (Un)fortunately the rap song has not been released digitally at the time of writing as a friend has confirmed ...

I'm writing this review to tell you that: watch the end credits and almost till the end. There is a fun addition or two that they have :)

The movie itself is a quite fun and lightweight popcorn movie. I would like to rate it 6.5, but I can't, and I think 7 is just a bit too much. It's because some scenes are overplayed and exaggerated, and they lose their impact and realism. Or maybe everything else is underplayed and sometimes a bit dull.

At some point, it feels like a black comedy, but not all jokes are on that level. The drama is there, but I think they rushed a little bit with these scenes. A few more minutes given and it might even pull a tear.

Nevertheless, it's a fun watch and a good effort.