Con Game - Kenne deine Feinde

It's good, it's rough, and the best part about it is that it's South African. That's primarily what captures your attention. The styling is also quite good because it's all brown, raw, and unpleasant. You feel like it's going to hurt, and it does. Unfortunately, the story is nothing original, and it just flows at a fairly pleasant pace. (18.11.2014)

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. (17.11.2014)