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Torn Network: "Spider in the Net" is another terrible film about the Israeli institution - Walla! culture

2020-01-20T21:34:06.665Z


With stars like Ben Kingsley and Monica Balucci and a fiery theme like war against Syrian biological terror, greatness could be expected from "The Spider in the Web," but it turns out to be a nuisance, banal movie ...


Torn Network: "Spider in the Net" is another terrible film about the Israeli institution

With stars like Ben Kingsley and Monica Balucci and fiery as war against Syrian biological terror, greatness could be expected from "The Spider on the Web," but it emerges as a hassle-free, banal and unreliable film that joins Fada's failed imitation sequence

Torn Network: "Spider in the Net" is another terrible film about the Israeli institution

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In recent years we have been under the bombing of films on Israeli security authorities. "The Angel", "Operation Finale", "The Dive Site in the Human Sea", "The Spy", "The Mossad", "The English Teacher" and others have made this tradition an almost monthly ritual. Now, Eran Riklis, "Spider in the Net," joins another group two years ago, another spy thriller called "Hiding".

Ricklis, who has been active since the 1980s, broke into the international arena about a decade and a half ago, mainly thanks to "Lemon Tree," a film about the much-successful conflict in the United States and Europe. Since then, he has specialized in producing international, fairly expensive international product lines and (relatively) well-known star petitions in our region. In addition to the "hiding" already mentioned, he directed "Playoff" with Danny Houston as Ralph Klein and "Zaytun" with Stephen Dorf as a pilot in captivity during the Lebanon War.

"Spider in the Web" is rising in terms of star attractiveness, perhaps even because today there are fewer roles for out-of-the-world character actors in superhero films, and it's easier to recruit them. And so, Riklis works here with none other than Oscar winner Ben Kingsley, along with Monica Balucci, another who shouldn't be presenting. If that is not enough, the film also enjoys a quality Israeli team including Itzik Cohen and Iti Tiran.

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A veteran institution agent who does not speak a Hebrew word. Ben Kingsley on "Spider in the Net" (Photo: PR)

Spider in the net (Photo: United King, PR)

This time, the international partnership was with Belgium, so the production included a host of Belgian crew members, and most of the espionage story takes place in a fairly laid-back European country - not exactly a thrilling geopolitical center, but oh well, the main thing was bringing money. Another constraint of internationalism: Ben Kingsley plays an old institution agent, but for some reason he doesn't even speak a word in Hebrew (and why he should speak - Ben Kingsley doesn't know Hebrew). The Israeli actors speak Hebrew among themselves, but the English uncle speaks English. In the forgiveness, some do it quite awkwardly.

To be told for the film's rarity, it is not based on a book but on an original script written by Gidi Maron and Emanuel Nakash. The Institutional Agent played by Kingsley is declining professionally. It is supposed to play a major role in the war to prevent Syria from developing biological weapons, but brings what appears to be worthless information and refuses to do good and hang the shoes. Maybe if he had traveled to the country a little less boring than Belgium, his spider web would have been able to drop significant information on the net?

The veteran fox's commanders send him a young institution agent, played by Itai Tiran, and it soon becomes clear that the two have a long, unprofessional history. Another personal plot line develops between the protagonist and the character in Balucci. He needed to seduce her to get information from her, but of course the two fell in love, leading to some old-fashioned, sexist and banal sex scenes, the kind that were common in such thrillers in the 1980s.

Eighties Sex Style Scenes. Ben Kingsley and Monica Balucci in "The Spider in the Web" (Photo: PR)

Spider in the net (Photo: United King, PR)

The movie has many other failures. Cooperation with the Belgian foundations does not guarantee glittering production conditions: the institution, it seems, employs only ten people, and biological terrorism is prevented by sending a picture in Wetsap. The script is complicated and sometimes not very coherent, so the plot is difficult to follow - although in this case it should be noted that this is a common phenomenon in the genre. Perhaps most problematic of all is the character of Kingsley's protagonist. Time after time, she emerges as an oppressive uncle, with an unpleasant presence and a tendency to tell arbitrary and pointless anecdotes. In the funniest scene here, which is one of the most recently seen puzzles, he even opens a tedious monologue about the secrets to making a perfect pea soup.

Despite its inherent flaws, the film could have gone further. There is a beautiful idea here: a figure of a glorified spy, whom no one is interested in his services anymore, but is unwilling to leave the profession, mainly because he has never known anything else. This pathetic could have been emotional, but in the film, it is presented in a hassle-free way. Instead of focusing on it, "Spider on the Web" develops a plethora of sub-stories that have no potential in the first place, and they do not lead anywhere. Instead, they cause the film to get tangled in its own webs and reveal all its weaknesses.

That's why you moved to Berlin. Itai Tiran in "Spider in the Net" (Photo: PR)

Spider in the net (Photo: United King, PR)

On the face of it, "Spider in the Web" sounds like a bingo - what can go wrong when combining hot topical issues with stars of the size of Kingsley, Baluchi and Tyran. But, as with other espionage thrillers that have failed in recent years, it has once again emerged that such a recipe promises nothing, and perhaps vice versa. The use of the institution and its global operations is more burdensome than an asset. It is dragging creators under international Babylon towers, in which the spoken language is ultimately gibberish, the seemingly prestigious but relatively poor production of what the spy genre requires, and the scripts are similar to each other and fall lightly into the banal chasm.

Almost none of the geopolitical thrillers made in recent years around the Middle East have been artistically or commercially successful. On the other hand, the world seems to be thirsty for such products - the fact that more and more are being given the green light for production, and it was only this weekend that we announced that Yuval Adler, creator of "Bethlehem" and "English Teacher", will direct a series in an international production on the elimination of Moorish. The need, then, exists, but in the meantime only "Pauda" has successfully cracked the formula for how to fill it. "Spider in the net" plays on the same field, but finds it difficult to put the ball in the net.

"Pauda" is not. Itzik Cohen from "Spider in the Net" (Photo: PR)

Spider in the net (Photo: United King, PR)

She had better roles. Monica Balucci on "Spider in the Net" (Photo: PR)

Spider in the net (Photo: United King, PR)

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