De trein van zes uur tien

Onno Staling (Peter Paul Muller) is one of the applicants vying for a top job in the Rijksmuseum. To ensure success for himself, he decides on a plan to abduct another applicant Alex Bickers (Roeland Fernhout)and hold him captive in the cellar of an isolated cottage. The plan works in his favour and he is appointed, but Fate can play such strange tricks, and in the ensuing years the tables are turned and it becomes a story of vengeance.

There are some interesting clues some of which can be guessed at,and even the 6.10 express, as regular as clockwork, plays an important role in the unfolding events.

The actors portray the main characters (thoroughly despicable) with a high degree of competence, and the story itself is quite believable though hopefully applicants will not resort to this kind of behaviour. I thought the pressure pack was a rather strange and unusual birthday present in the early part of the film, but it is a necessary part of the story.

The boiling coffee poised over the innocent smiling baby was a terrifying moment and locking someone in an over-heated sauna could have dire consequences. With a whole series of exciting scenes I felt the entire film was well constructed and an above average thriller. Indeed it held me right to the end and then the unpleasant job of identifying a corpse in the morgue gave way to even one more exciting revelation.