The The Memory Of A Killer

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Original Title: The Memory Of A Killer

Genge: Action,Crime,Drama,Thriller

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. Since Ledda starts showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, it's getting more and more difficult to complete his contracts. When he has to murder a 12-year old call-girl, he refuses and becomes a target himself. While Vincke and Verstuyft are chasing him and counting the corpses, Ledda is taking care of his employers.
Vincke and Verstuyft are the best detectives of the Antwerp police department. They are confronted with the murder on a leading executive and put all their effort to catch the murderer.
Erik van Looy's "De Zaak Alzheimer" isn't the least bit groundbreaking or exceptional but, considering it's an entirely Belgian production, it slightly outshines the middle group. The plot is standard cop-thriller material with an all-knowing assassin turning against his instructors and leaving the Antwerp police with a series of corpses of eminent (but corrupt) politicians. The story is thickened by some secondary elements such as the killer suffering from Alzheimer's disease and the dreadful cat-and-mouse game he's playing with the coppers. Merely thanks to the cast (world famous…in Belgium) and expensive promotional campaigns, this film was very successful and received much praise. Quite undeserved actually, as it's far too long and featuring too much clichés and stereotype characters. The only real smart element is the unsubtle sarcasm towards the failure of united police forces. But that only works if you're familiar with the Belgian law system that recently implanted collaboration between the different police cells. The competition and venom between these cells results in efficient pranks and sometimes even a bit of tension. The action sequences, effects and settings are okay but, as said before, nothing really spectacular. The thing that irritated me mostly was the director's urge to make this film look so typically Hollywood-like. The camera-work, the cut-and-paste editing, the music…Van Looy tries too hard and the wholesome eventually looks like a giant wannabe. De Zaak Alzheimer is adapted from a novel by Jef Geeraerts, a famous Belgian writer who wrote tons of similar stories (trust me…I was forced to read many of them in school). One of his previous novels already was turned into a mini-series called "Diamant". That series was at least ten times better than this film.
Unlike "Memento," the 2003 Belgian film "Memory of a Killer" is not about a struggle with failing memory, even if the original title was "The Alzheimer Affair" - not a potential box-office draw. The main character, Ledda (played with self-effacing brilliance by Jan Decleir), does have the onset of Alzheimer's, and he writes names of his future victims on his arm, but if you took that element away, the story would remain virtually the same.

Initially, that story is about an international mafia operation in Antwerp, including child prostitution on its agenda. Decleir's character - an aging, but impressively professional killer, who is flesh-and-blood real, far from the typical Hollywood caricature - runs up against an order to kill a 13-year-old girl. In crime syndicates, assignments are not optional, so Ledda is now pitched against his former colleagues and bosses, in a desperate run for survival.

It is at that point the film's real nature emerges, a variation on "The Fugitive," a lone man against overwhelming forces, but with a unique twist: Ledda is no hero, in fact he is a super-villain, and yet director Erik Van Looy's work of honesty and integrity, and Decleir's performance put the audience squarely in the killer's corner.

The reason: he is fighting not only for survival, but against a major collusion between crime bosses and government officials, making the work of the honest police official Vincke (played by Koen De Bouw) quite impossible.

It is the reluctant and indirect collaboration between Ledda and Vincke, two individuals - a cop and a killer - against a mighty machine, that gives "Memory of a Killer" its focus and zing.

There is something very puzzling about the presentation of this film. Anyone with even a passing exposure to world news may well remember that there was a huge scandal in Belgium just a few years ago over exactly the same scenario: child prostitution and a government cover-up that went up to the highest ranks, busted open finally by a few honest cops (and even an intervention from the king). And yet, in all the studio literature, there isn't a single mention of a possible connection, and when specifically asked, a spokesperson for US presenter Sony said the film "has no relationship whatsoever to the Belgian scandal." Strange, indeed. A gripping,stylishly lensed thriller.

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