Pretty disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (11 October 2006)

When this movie came out here in the Netherlands I heard a lot of positive feedback about it from friends. So I went to see it yesterday in the cinema and at the end I was disappointed.
The storyline is at points very confusing. Good guys turn into bad guys and turn into good guys again. And at the end... everybody is just dead. I think this is supposed to be surprising but it wasn't very exciting to me. Zwartboek was very predictable at certain moments. A lot of times I rolled my eyes and thought: Yeah of course, in real life you wouldn't do that kind of things, not even in times of war. Oh yeah, eating chocolate against an insuline injection when you are almost dead and to weak to get up, jump off a balcony and after all that run a distance. Yeah sure! There is also a lot of nudity in this movie which isn't really needed for the story in my opinion, but I guess it's just the way Paul Verhoeven works. If I didn't learn it from IMDb I would never have thought 20 years of writing was put into this movie.
Well... maybe I had too high expectations before going to see this movie...