Max Porcelijn's follow-up to his feature debut 'Plan C', a thoroughly fun and apt crime comedy with dramatic elements. 'De Grote Zwaen' presents us with a lot of the same actors as his first, although the lead is now played by Peter van de Witte, who is (in Holland anyway) better known for his work in cabaret. I had expected much from him, especially after seeing the trailer, but I was a little disappointed; the other actors mostly overshadowed him, and his character wasn't all that interesting all the time (just like those colleagues he kept meeting up with).
The story concerns some iffy characters, some bad guys, a big sum of money, and quite a few complications in what at first seems to be a pretty simple plan - much like 'Plan C' and many other crime comedies. On the one hand, there's plenty clichés here, of which some are working just fine, but there are others that are just a little too plain and boring. The parts played by Michiel Romeyn, Ton Kas, Ruben van de Meer and René van 't Hof are the best and amount to some very memorable, dialogue driven scenes. Then, there are few terrific comedic bits, such as the car driving into two trees... that's the stuff classics are made of.
All in all, it wasn't as good as 'Plan C', but certainly entertaining enough. A good 7 out of 10.
The story concerns some iffy characters, some bad guys, a big sum of money, and quite a few complications in what at first seems to be a pretty simple plan - much like 'Plan C' and many other crime comedies. On the one hand, there's plenty clichés here, of which some are working just fine, but there are others that are just a little too plain and boring. The parts played by Michiel Romeyn, Ton Kas, Ruben van de Meer and René van 't Hof are the best and amount to some very memorable, dialogue driven scenes. Then, there are few terrific comedic bits, such as the car driving into two trees... that's the stuff classics are made of.
All in all, it wasn't as good as 'Plan C', but certainly entertaining enough. A good 7 out of 10.