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Well they do know how to shoot a trailer. I thought I was going to an action thriller but it turns out I'd paid to watch ill-disguised propaganda for the leader of a religious cult. If you know who I mean you have no reason to see this film; if you don't, and you are interested in that kind of thing, this is a good introduction to a defining feature of modern Turkey.

Memorable bits? Mustafa Sandal lecturing Danny Glover on how EU accession negotiations have improved human rights in Turkey was pretty cringeworthy in its defensiveness. And it made no sense whatsoever to dub the English-speaking Americans into Turkish and then have Turkish cop Mahsun Kirmizigul not be able to understand them. But the action sequence at the start with the police suddenly whipping off their burka disguises was pretty cool.

This film uses the cheapest trick in the book to try and turn a non-story into a story. Namely by splicing scenes together in a way that creates the impression of a plot where no plot actually exists. What's worse, though, is that the DVD blurb wrongly represents it as a "gripping suspense thriller" and leads the viewer to expect a "shocking twist" so right to the end you are left waiting for the "real" story to develop. They should have just stuck to linear story-telling and kept it as a nice little art-house character study. But instead they went down the route of a cheap editing trick and insincere marketing. Shameful!