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Schenk (Dietmar Bär, l) and Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt, r.) with a corpse on the banks of the Rhine: cast off for narcissism
Photo: Thomas Kost / WDR
The scenario:
Cast off for the Larmoyanz.
An ex-high school teacher (Stephan Kampwirth), who had an affair with a 14-year-old student and was imprisoned for it, goes on a revenge campaign with a Rhine steamer.
He planted a bomb in the engine room, took the passengers hostage and whine to the police about how unfairly he had been treated during negotiations over mobile phones and railings.
Inspector Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) smuggles himself on board undercover, colleague Schenk (Dietmar Bär) tries to talk the perpetrator tiredly, and special forces position themselves on bridges and promenades for the final rescue shot, but for some unknown reason they let all good opportunities pass.
In short: the case drags on.
The highlight:
Those responsible come up with some ideas to keep the hostage-taker thriller moving.
Usually, the perpetrators take their victims into their power at fixed locations, such as a bank or a school.
The idea of dissolving the static inscribed in the genre about the mobile prison is actually a good one.
But despite the tour of the steamers, the rattling of the police boats and the action in balaclavas, there is no momentum worth mentioning.
The picture:
Ballup and the bomb.
The inspector has sneaked into the engine room and is now pondering in front of the colorful cables which he should cut off to defuse the explosive device.
You've just seen this thing with the wrong colorful cables far too often, the thrill from the hostage crime kit comes to nothing.
The dialogue:
After Ballauf sneaks off to look for the bomb, he is confronted by the hostage taker at the urinal.
Hostage-taker: "Are you crazy!?"
Inspector: "Sorry, my prostate."
Hostage-taker: "You'll never pee without my permission again!"
Inspector: "If my prostate had known they would take it that way..."
Hostage-taker yells, "Then get your fucking prostate operated on!"
The song:
»Stääne« by Klüngelköpp.
"When the Stääne dances in the sky / And the Dom sings Jlocke spills" purrs from the boxes of the excursion boat as it sails along Cologne's landmark.
The review:
4 out of 10 points.
Despite bombshell action and dialogue power, this Cologne hostage-taker thriller doesn't really get rid of the swaying rhythm of the old Klüngelköpp camel at the beginning.
The analysis:
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