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Donovan MarshDrehbuch:
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S'dumo Mtshali, Presley Chweneyagae, Pallance Dladla, Brendon Daniels, Brandon Auret, Petronella Tshuma, Tumie Ngumla, Daniel Hadebe, Hlubi MboyaStreaming (1)
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Undercover Cop Chili hat die Schnauze voll. Nach jahrelanger Arbeit hat er einen Gangsterboss spektakulär verhaftet und wäre dabei fast draufgegangen. Doch jetzt verwehrt sein korrupter Vorgesetzter ihm die zustehende Belohnung, die er für seine Familie schon fest eingeplant hatte. Chili fasst einen folgenschweren Entschluss: Er schleust sich auf eigene Faust in die Gang des gefürchteten Bosses Mambane ein, der für den Überfall auf einen Geldtransporter die schillerndsten Typen der südafrikanischen Unterwelt angeworben hat. Nur dieses einzige Mal will er die Gang nicht hochnehmen, sondern seinen Anteil behalten. Doch schon bald wittern die misstrauischen Gangster einen Verräter in ihren Reihen. Und der geplante Coup selbst läuft auch gewaltig aus dem Ruder. (Ascot Elite Home Entertainment)
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The first ten minutes are so pimped out that they couldn’t possibly have been pimped out more. The atmosphere is loaded with suspense, the camera is shaking, but the whole thing is so stylish that you won’t feel it’s bad even for a second. All the more surprising for a movie from South Africa. But what follows after the beginning is a classical cop movie. The cop doesn’t get the credit he deserves, so he decides to act on his own. The nasty South African setting gets reflected in the story as well – you can’t really say it is full of corruption, it’s rather that it has very little to do with a decent human community. I was also pretty annoyed with that weird pseudo-English that everybody in the movie spoke. However, the action was on par and that’s despite the fact that at times the camera was a bit more shaky than necessary. All in all, I have to admit that I hadn’t expected this action-filled surprise.
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It's good, it's gritty, and perhaps the best part is that it's South African. That's primarily what grabs your attention. The stylization is quite good as well because the whole thing is brown, raw, and unsettling. You feel like it's going to hurt and it does. Unfortunately, the story isn't anything original, but it does flow at a fairly pleasant pace.
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