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Die Ontwaking (2015)

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Die Ontwaking

6 reviews
4/10

Underwhelming, to say the least (pun intended)

  • krice23
  • Feb 14, 2020
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5/10

Expecting

I have to admit, reading the summary here on Imdb for a second I thought: Did I watch the right movie? This sounds amazing ... having said that, the execution and the movie overall is not as exciting (if you excuse the pun) as they might make you believe it is.

That doesn't mean that this is a bad movie by any standards. It just falls flat on the premise or rather promise(s) you are given. The acting is solid of course and the thriller element works mostly too. The theme may offend you and our nemesis/evil/bad guy is supposed to be hated. Take it with a grain of salt and try to overlook the flaws this has.
  • kosmasp
  • Nov 12, 2021
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3/10

No awakening! Lots of sleepwalking

Ontwaking=awakening in Afrikaans. The premise is interesting, but the story is poorly told. Detectives, killer, reporter-everyone-sleepwalks along, making foolish moves with little explanation. No awakening for anyone until too late it seems. Editing was poor as transitions between scenes was awkward. No character development, just waited for someone to do something intelligent and was let down. Ending was weak, anti-climactic. For a movie set in South Africa, I expected to see more black people but maybe it's good so few were part of this bad movie
  • revdennis
  • Dec 10, 2020
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2/10

Damned Shame / Verdomde Skaamte

If you chopped up ideas from Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Se7en and mixed it with some bad acting, a confused story line and some taxidermy you would end up with this. Abel Lotz was a nicely sinister character, but the driving force behind his actions was never really explored. A telescope and badly drawn fish does not a killer make......not it the land of film any way.
  • Mymsy
  • Jan 30, 2020
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6/10

Interesting If Derivative

  • Pairic
  • Jan 31, 2020
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6/10

Usual serial killer movie..

A man killing girls for their tattoo with skin...one of the women detective chase him until he catch him...there is no surprise element and interesting subject for unique a movie..some scenes reminds of 1960's physco movie..
  • kamalbeeee
  • May 30, 2020
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