The idea was good, the story itself is okay - for this kind of a film. What kind? A simple genre film. This was intended to be a typical action film, and that isn't a problem. This could have been a simple, but nice and enjoyable film, much better than what it became.
The main problem is what is spoken by the characters. The lines are so unrealistic, that only Anger and Ganxsta could make them sound like something someone would say in real life. But even they couldn't always make it work, and this simply ruined the whole film. Why couldn't the characters have something to say that you'd expect from them? Why couldn't there be more real place names, instead of just saying 'in a club' or 'his apartment'?
The answer for the second is, that József Kovalik had worked in American films as a stuntman, and wanted his movie to have a bit of an American feeling. Or to mostly have that feeling. But he made his movie in Budapest, with Hungarian actors speaking Hungarian, so that didn't work.
The car chase at the hideout - an abandoned soviet army base, as it's called in the film - almost reached Cobra 11 heights, by which I mean that it was undeniably European. And this is the second biggest problem: denying what it is and attempting to seem like something that it is not. Why couldn't it be more Hungarian and less americanish?
So in conclusion, I had hoped I could like the film. There were actually some good scenes in it, but the two problems I listed made me feel sad, because I was constantly thinking about what a missed opportunity this film is. It could have been at least enjoyable.
The main problem is what is spoken by the characters. The lines are so unrealistic, that only Anger and Ganxsta could make them sound like something someone would say in real life. But even they couldn't always make it work, and this simply ruined the whole film. Why couldn't the characters have something to say that you'd expect from them? Why couldn't there be more real place names, instead of just saying 'in a club' or 'his apartment'?
The answer for the second is, that József Kovalik had worked in American films as a stuntman, and wanted his movie to have a bit of an American feeling. Or to mostly have that feeling. But he made his movie in Budapest, with Hungarian actors speaking Hungarian, so that didn't work.
The car chase at the hideout - an abandoned soviet army base, as it's called in the film - almost reached Cobra 11 heights, by which I mean that it was undeniably European. And this is the second biggest problem: denying what it is and attempting to seem like something that it is not. Why couldn't it be more Hungarian and less americanish?
So in conclusion, I had hoped I could like the film. There were actually some good scenes in it, but the two problems I listed made me feel sad, because I was constantly thinking about what a missed opportunity this film is. It could have been at least enjoyable.