Kidnapping Mr. Heineken 2015 by AverageMansReviews

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken 2015 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is colourful effects/flashing effects/burning/shooting

I'll get the first round in if this goes according to plan: it is the early 1980s, our location is the Netherlands, Amsterdam Cor Van Hout [Jim Sturgess] talks to his close circle of friends about his idea to kidnap the extremely wealthy Freddy Heineken; yes this is the guy that owns Heineken beer [Anthony Hopkins,] so they all agreed to this plan to hold him for ransom for £35 million, on the execution of this plan they also take his driver Ab Doderer [David Dencik] which was not a part of the original plan, but they went with it on the fly nonetheless.

The pacing of this 95 minutes film is generally speaking slow and steady, but I should hasten to add whenever Anthony Hopkins as Freddy Heineken is on screen he brings so much to the table; treating his captives as if this was some kind of hotel, yes he most definitely understands the dire situation he and his driver is in, but he can still be relatively comfortable whilst he has been kidnapped; this can be seen as having serious but comedy tone; this is an excellent performance from Anthony Hopkins. But later on consistently without him, this film and viewing experience really does run out of steam.

Onto the action and art on both counts we don't have much to talk about robbery, kidnapping and a chasing sequence in a car, of what I can remember we have a very small number of scenes of scenery if that.

The character developments are all good and minus Anthony Hopkins they are reliable versions of what they are meant to be.

This film receives: 4/10, this film is mixed; I mean if there are fans plans of Anthony Hawkins out there in Internet land take a look at this film, I do stress he is in a supporting role, but other than that I wouldn't expect too much from this film. This film has 1 Nominee accredited to its name National Film Awards, UK 2016 National Film Award Best Breakthrough Performance in a Film Jim Sturgess.