I compared this movie to 'Munich'

Rating: 10/10 (28 May 2007)

which I liked but which had a simple plot. I wouldn't have bothered to make any comments on this movie if it weren't for the fact that a couple of days after having seen Black Book it dawned on me how all the details of the plot fit together. I left the movie wondering who the fellow with the helmet whom Muntze was chasing through the crowd was. Suddenly two days later it dawned on me and how all the characters fit together. This elicited the feeling that Verhoeven is a cinematic genius and my admiration for him is boundless. This movie is not just a very good movie, it is fantastic - but not in the sense of fantasy, but how reality is better than fiction. Admittedly it was "inspired" by a true story and thus embellished upon, but to show in movie form the progress of the main character's insights and to the final realization of the big picture, that in my opinion was Verhoeven's genius.