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Title: Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jim Sturgess | ... | Cor Van Hout | |
| Sam Worthington | ... | Willem Holleeder | |
| Ryan Kwanten | ... | Jan 'Cat' Boellard | |
| Anthony Hopkins | ... | Freddy Heineken | |
| Mark van Eeuwen | ... | Frans 'Spikes' Meijer | |
| Thomas Cocquerel | ... | Martin 'Brakes' Erkamps | |
| Jemima West | ... | Sonja Holleeder | |
| David Dencik | ... | Ab Doderer | |
| Dirk Roofthooft | ... | Pa Holleeder | |
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Vera Van Dooren | ... | Ma Holleeder |
| Kat Lindsay | ... | Karin | |
| Roy McCrerey | ... | Iverson | |
| Vince Canlas | ... | Chinese Restaurant Owner | |
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Natalie Mejer | ... | French Stewardess |
| Eric Godon | ... | Police Drop Off Driver | |
The inside story of the planning, execution, rousing aftermath, and ultimate downfall of the kidnappers of beer tycoon Alfred "Freddy" Heineken in 1983, which resulted in the largest ransom ever paid for an individual.
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Back in the early 1980s, Freddy Heineken, one of the richest men in the Netherlands and the head of Heineken International, was kidnapped along with his driver. Eventually, one of the largest ransoms ever was paid for his release. This film is about the kidnapping from the point of view of the crooks as well as its aftermath. This is interesting because you never see or hear anything about the police investigation--you only see the police when they are pouncing on the criminals at the end of the film. This all sounds very exciting....so why was I left so unaffected by the film? It is competently made but also rather ordinary.
On the positive side, the music is really, really nice. It provides a taut atmosphere and some of the action sequences were very nice. Oddly, the most exciting moment in the film occurs early in the movie--well before the actual kidnapping. In order to raise funds to pull off the kidnapping, the gang knocks over a bank--and it's exactly what I assumed the rest of the film would be like. However, sadly, after this the kidnapping seemed a bit anticlimactic and the film just seems to descend into a state of adequacy and nothing more. I think much of it is because I never felt particularly connected with the kidnappers and the tension just seemed to dissipate until the relatively exciting finale. The bottom line is that this would be a decent film to rent, but I couldn't see heading to the theaters for this one.
By the way, although the film is about Dutch kidnappers, everyone in the film was British! They sounded very British and although it was filmed in the Netherlands, it seemed more like a British gang there on holiday. The same story is told, incidentally, in a Dutch language film (The Heineken Kidnapping) starring Rutger Hauer as Freddy Heineken. In this British version, the filmmakers were able to secure the talents of Anthony Hopkins to play this beer baron.