The takeover

​"The takeover"

Watched Dutch movie dubbed in English "The takeover". 

This movie is directed by Annemarie van de Monde. Produced by Femke Bennink, Annemieke van Vliet. Written by Hans Erik Kraan, Tijs van Marle. Music by Merlijin Snitker. Cinematography by Willem Helwig. This movie features Holly Mae Brood, Frank Lammers, Susan Radder, Gèza Weisz, Walid Benmbarek, Noortje Herlaar, Lawrence Sheldon, Kok-Hwa Lei. This movie was released in 2022 and runs for about 1 hour 28 min. I watched the movie on Netflix on 26th Mar 2023.

Mel Bandison is a hacker. A white hatter. She and two of her online friends hack into and drain money from unscrupulous businessmen and distribute it to the poor. She also works for a company. One day she finds a data pipeline going out of her company’s server. She sends a Trojan horse through it and shuts down all the connected computers. This brings her to the attention of bad guys. Her doctored video, shooting a person, appears on the net and she becomes a fugitive. The only person who can help her is Buddy. Her ex-mentor who she betrayed to Interpol. 

Why did she betray Buddy? Will he help her? Who is after her? Why? Can she prove her innocence?

It’s a story of hacking. So most of the action is virtual, except the last bus ride. You have to let your imagination lose to imagine the cyber war. 

Holly plays the ethical hacker well. She looks one. Frank plays Buddy, the ex mentor. He is chubby, old, doesn’t look like a hacker. Gèza plays her date gone wrong. He and Holly come together in emergency. He does a decent job. Walid is impressive as inspector. 

It’s a thriller, a cyber thriller. So there is action, there are fast scenes. You don’t lose interest. All in all, since the movie is decent and duration is about only 1.5 hours, you enjoy it. 

I had never watched a Dutch movie. This was the first. 

Positives: Length. Pace. 

Negatives: Umm…

Recommend watching.