The movie Forever Rich pulls the viewer into its world when the call to action happens: Richie and his friend get robbed and belittled by a group of young guys. We discover that Richie's rapper's persona is merely that: a persona. Consequently, things get interesting once it appears that the robbery was filmed and put online.
Now Richie's biggest challenge is not the stolen goods but rather his image. What follows is a journey struggle for Richie to restore his street credit and honor. But things go from bad to worse.
The film is fun to watch in the sense that there is a right amount of action and the character of Richie offers entertaining and even funny scenes. However, to fully enjoy the film one has to turn off their brain due to the shortcomings in the plot as well as its unrealistic nature.
For one, Richie's friend Tony and his bodyguard Abdel do not seem to play any significant meaning. They merely exist to function as plot devices for entertaining scenes. One gets stabbed and brought to the hospital, the other saves Richie by fleeing from the cops. In both cases, we never hear or see from either character again (with the exception of Abdel's family asking about him).
Secondly, the plot is very, very unrealistic to a point its ridiculous and laughable. Apparently, the law enforcement in the Netherlands do not have access to the media or internet:
Somehow, Richie is able perform a show as if nothing happened after 1) kidnapping / physically hurting a teenager AND livestreaming it, 2) fleeing from the cops (and for some reason they do not recognize him) and last but not least: filming/forcing a young guy to strip naked at gunpoint before shooting him accidentally.
After all this, the people online seem to love Richie again and even the record labels want to sign him now more than ever. Richie seems to have restored his honor and the movie seems to end with the cliché that he "won but at what cost?"
If one is able to ignore the unrealistic points of the plot its a nice popcorn flick but having said this, I can not understand for the life of me how this movie is nominated for a Gouden Kalf for scenario. Maybe the other nominations are somehow even worse. The acting is decent though.
3/10.
Now Richie's biggest challenge is not the stolen goods but rather his image. What follows is a journey struggle for Richie to restore his street credit and honor. But things go from bad to worse.
The film is fun to watch in the sense that there is a right amount of action and the character of Richie offers entertaining and even funny scenes. However, to fully enjoy the film one has to turn off their brain due to the shortcomings in the plot as well as its unrealistic nature.
For one, Richie's friend Tony and his bodyguard Abdel do not seem to play any significant meaning. They merely exist to function as plot devices for entertaining scenes. One gets stabbed and brought to the hospital, the other saves Richie by fleeing from the cops. In both cases, we never hear or see from either character again (with the exception of Abdel's family asking about him).
Secondly, the plot is very, very unrealistic to a point its ridiculous and laughable. Apparently, the law enforcement in the Netherlands do not have access to the media or internet:
Somehow, Richie is able perform a show as if nothing happened after 1) kidnapping / physically hurting a teenager AND livestreaming it, 2) fleeing from the cops (and for some reason they do not recognize him) and last but not least: filming/forcing a young guy to strip naked at gunpoint before shooting him accidentally.
After all this, the people online seem to love Richie again and even the record labels want to sign him now more than ever. Richie seems to have restored his honor and the movie seems to end with the cliché that he "won but at what cost?"
If one is able to ignore the unrealistic points of the plot its a nice popcorn flick but having said this, I can not understand for the life of me how this movie is nominated for a Gouden Kalf for scenario. Maybe the other nominations are somehow even worse. The acting is decent though.
3/10.