Duisbourg: La piste sanglante

Bad filmmaking, terrible location scouting and lazy production design. There are better movies to watch.

The movie would have been better if it weren't so many mistakes. At one point a woman arrives in Amsterdam and walks to a parking garage. Only everything is written in Greek. Uniforms of the Dutch police are incorrect, they wear Belgian police hats. And so many more mistakes.

To be fair, most of us do associate countries with certain things. One of the things you probably associate Italy with is Spaghetti and Pizza (which is kind of funny considering where those things were actually invented, but it only goes to show you, that we sometimes only touch the surface). Another thing we do think of is the mafia.

Cliches that are being put on display here - but they are also being talked about. A good thing then - seeing through things and being able to distinguish. This will not be a philosophical movie though. This is a thriller - and murder (they wrote/commited). Decent enough even if it may fail to really be great overall.

Everything screams out "no budget", from the low-key locations to the banal photography. The "strange couple" of cops has been done a thousand times before, the lead female overacts like crazy as the wife of a "malavitoso" and the only message one gets is that it's better to stay away from Italian restaurants abroad because the owner may be mixed up with criminal organisations.

Good subject for a film. But unconvincing manuscript and mostly poor acting. Will stay away from this director.