Erotic Violent Pulpy WWII Thriller

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2014)

In 1956 Israel, Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) remembers his war years in Holland starting in Sept 1944. When an allied bomber accidentally destroyed her hiding place, she tries to escape to liberated territories. The escaping Jews get caught and massacred but Rachel survives. She is rescued by the resistance and gets into dangerous operations. Eventually she infiltrates the Nazi world.
Director Paul Verhoeven is bringing Nazis, Holocaust, and resistance fully into erotic violent pulp territories. It is unabashed in its noir thriller mentality. There is something oddly unreal about it. The last act has a few too many unnecessary twists, but it's nevertheless compelling and exciting.