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Alias (2002)
Fast food flemish entertainment
although Jan Verheyen movies come in with a lot of publicity - at least in Belgium - they never predict high quality. this time the expectations were higher due to a nice trailer and promising cast. watching the movie was a nice experience at the beginning, but this quickly faded along the watching. too many rediculous coincidences (ex. geert hunaerts - while playing the lead role - who's helping this young lady having her purse back) and holes in the story (ex. werner the smedt - boyfriend of lead female role - who's able to detect the 'horror' house???). Also the end is rushed unfortunately. On those moments you can see Verheyen knows his classics, but isn't having the talent to bring over the atmosphere of his inspiring examples. Last point of comment is the weakness of choreography that was killing a lot of shots along the movie. 5 on 10 for this semi-freaky movie is my score, thanks to great acting of Hunaert and most of the other leading actors, certainly not the side part actors and also thanks to a couple of nice actions scenes and special effects. worth a look at the vcr.