Invasie

I normally don't leave reviews here but this was so bad I just had to warn others. Did not know if I had to laugh or cry watching this. This is a typical Dutch movie of this era. Bad actors (always the same ones), bad script and no budget and terrible CGI. Why does Dutch cinema always use the same 15+ actors and actrices in every single movie they make??? The actors act like they have never acted before (the professional soldiers used in the film as extras act much better), the storyline is laughable at best but mostly totally unbelievable. I cannot imagine that someone at the Dutch department of defense thought it would be a good idea to participate in this. In fact, it makes me angry realizing that the Dutch department of defense wasted my tax money on this disaster of a movie. Because that is what this is. A recruiting movie for the Dutch military but only done very very badly. The 4.9 it has now does not do it justice. It should be a 0.1. Don't watch this and go waste your time on something else. You will thank me later.

The movie is oke and fine if you have nothing to do. A lot of inaccuracies with makes a Marvel movie more realistic than this one. It starts fine, but it takes quite some time to gain some context on what is happying and initial introduction of characters is a waste of time as they are completely irrelevant to the story. The focus is completely removed from those characters and the context created.

And then the end.. the movie stops suddenly without a solid or plausible end making the 1,5 hours a waste of your life.

Acting is fine, but nothing special.

I have no idea how this is in line, in respect to quality, with Mocro Maffia.

I enjoyed the recent works from Bobby Boermans, like High Flyers, Mocro Maffia and especially the Golden Hour. Seeing the trailer I was really hyped for his next project, but I was honestly disappointed. It lacked a decent story. 'First female marine' line that continued through the movie was odd. There isn't a female marine so it would be a true achievement, but keep emphasizing it turned it into a running joke or a cheap line. The gunfights were subpar as well. You can find more interesting fights in youtube videos with a signifcantly lower budget. VFX was really good though, props to PlanetX. Gijs Blom has shown his acting chops in The Forgotten Battle, but his character in Invasie was plain and boring. This movie, like many other Dutch movies, lacks mostly in writing and partially in direction. Even with great sound, great visuals and a decent budget, it can't compensate for a lack of story.

In short: the invasion happens, heroes need to rescue someone, there's a lot of stress but will they manage? Sure this isn't an art house movie, but don't mind all the nitwit reviews by people who don't like an action movie in which they speak Dutch. Story line is to the style, the acting is ok and the tension is there. And yes, as ex military, it's not even close to reality. But which action movie is? And the Caribbean islands might be mixed up. But who cares? It's a movie, it's entertainment and this one does the job. I gave it a +1 score because of all the bad reviews. Which I normally wouldn't do but this one deserved it.

A good story, not bad. There's one thing It annoyed me about the movie. The score/sound was too loud. You could hardly hear conversation in between. It's the same problem I have with the series FBI by Dick Wolf. The score is too loud.

It's great that, good for the entity, Could use the real navy and it brings in another perspective and maybe there is a sort of truth in the story because it's very close to the mainland of Venezuela.

This movie could be an idea of making a series out of it won't be that bad. But then again, it's spoken in Dutch so I don't think you can sell it International. But Bobbie did a great thing.