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9/10
A thriller with humor and a big heart
Valolj15 January 2022
I absolutely loved it. I personally thought the writing was excellent, I was biting my nails the whole time, and I really felt deeply for the characters too. We also laughed quite a lot, the old actors are AMAZING. It's definitely worth a watch, finally a Hungarian film that's worth the ticket!!
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Nice to watch. Hard to watch.
keedgatarr7 January 2022
It's hard to observe the clueless getting scammed, the grandson's desperation and that our authorities are useless. The film is beautifully shot, and the aesthetic and production-design brings back a lot of memories.
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10/10
Emotional drama, exciting thriller, authentic description of a society
nemesalex-540116 February 2022
The first thing I want to emphasize is the realism that is not at all typical of Hollywood movies. The characters almost climbed off the canvas, their reaction in each situation is so authentic. The process of police administration, the faded hospital, etc. Are also not idealized. Typical Hungary. The storytelling is also excellent, cliché-free, not silly audience-friendly, but not self-serving. Perfect balance. Nowhere did I feel like one scene was following another because the screenwriter kept here in the story, when the lunch break had just begun. The movie keeps you watching it and doesn't let go, due to both the bigger things that cover the whole movie and the little details.

The movie is so much like Raiders of Justice, Prisoners, and Fincher's works. As a thriller, the story is interesting and dramaturgical, the characters also work very well, such an emotional creation. The last time I felt on the Dune was that a creator wanted to make his film, he didn't just consider it a correct industrial job.

I think we're a couple of that, but many times I almost saw my grandfather on canvas. "There's no big trouble, just a lot of little ones" is a lifelike catchphrase that I can easily imagine that the writer-director's grandfather always said.

I would like to praise the cinematographer and the actors. Of course the director as well. My two favorite scenes were when Rudi was loading the gun while listening to Zsuzsi's voice message. Very effective. The other one is Grandpa's phone conversation. It's amazing for both the director and the actor to be able to do it all with minimal cuts, it's all much more livable.

To summarize, an uppercase movie experience for a person with high IQ and EQ. According to Nimród Antal, a film can be both very enjoyable for the audience and critically acclaimed. I totally agree, and Kristof Deak's film is a perfect example of that. I'm glad I have seen Retroshock's recommendation, and I've persuaded my friends to watch this movie as well. I'm gland we've financially supported such a demanding movie to succeed with the price of a few movie tickets, I hope there may be more of these in the future. On behalf of all viewers, I thank the entire staff for this experience.
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2/10
Bad writing
dogdesignhu14 January 2022
The foundation of the story was ok, but the second half of the movie was so stupid, it was really hard to watch without rolling my eyes. The plot would have been enough for a 60 min TV movie. But they wanted it to be almost two hours long without anything to tell on the second half. Do not waste your money on this.
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3/10
Soul-less yawn fest that will leave you looking for your own watch
gyuriba17 August 2022
The movie is bad. It isn't awful, but it is bad. It's like a group of over-eager drama kids got together with their grandparents during the holidays and decided to put on a production. Yes, it authentically displays the shortcomings of Hungarian social infrastructure, but that seems more inadvertent than purposeful.

The movie is simply not entertaining. The story is horribly unrealistic. The fight scene embarrassing. The wounds heal too quickly. The treatment of guns in Budapest is laughable.
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4/10
No soul and no attraction
jgholami3 June 2023
From the middle of the movie, the charm of watching it disappears. The topic of the movie is old, but it is very interesting for the people who suffered from this issue, considering that it touches the sensitive section of the society that people sympathize with. All in all, instead of this movie, you can choose much better movies for your free time. I didn't like it. The appeal of the movie would have been much better if the director could have presented more and more exciting challenges to the main character to solve the problems of the film's story. From the middle of the movie, unfortunately, the excitement of the movie is completely lost.
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