WHOOOSH! Why?


The premise is good. Although done before. Terminally ill cop cleans a few villains before he dies.
The makers of this film should have thought about the script and worked on it until it told a digestable story. It feels like someone said "I have this great idea for a really stylish movie starring Haluk Bilginer!" and production started the next day. Using weird angles and adding whooshes or bangs (ad nauseam) to every camera move or scene change does not make a half cooked script any more palatable. It just makes it very silly and irritating.
That said, we are witnessing the rebirth of Turkish cinema. It is refreshing to see that people are taking risks. No doubt they will learn from their (sometimes very expensive) mistakes. Evidently, 90% of Turkish feature films produced in the last few years were financial failures. (That's what I heard anyway). This means that in the future, people or companies who finance movies will have understood the importance of reading and analysing the treatment or script extremely carefully before diving in.

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