Ferry Movie Review: This Dutch Crime Drama Shines With Frank Lammers Performance

Director: Cecilia Verheyden

Star Cast: Frank Lammers, Elise Schaap, Huub Stapel, Monic Hendrickx and Raymond Thiry

Out Ratings: 3.5/5 (three and half stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

With Ferry from director Cecilia Verheyden, Netflix is now launching a film that is a prequel to the successful series Undercover. The strength of this print is undeniable that the characters of Danielle and especially Ferry are somewhat explored. In other words, as a viewer you better understand their psyche afterwards. Ferry shows how quick-tempered he can be, especially a man who is the result of a boy who has never known a father figure. Or not a good one. No, his father Jack was violent. To the extent that Ferry wanted to protect his mother from domestic violence as a child by taking her gun. He points the gun at his father but does not shoot. “Never threaten anyone if you can’t finish it. Loser! ”His father tells him, a life lesson that Ferry himself will pass on later. In terms of the opener of the film, that can count.

Ferry Story and Analysis

The opening scene of the movie begins with the shouts of a father who spreads his anger. As it can be understood from his state, he is drunk. And he chases after them with sentences that threaten family members. Little Ferry is the first name to escape from his father. She hides behind a car with her sister and tries to get rid of her father’s unbearable anger. Subsequently, while the mother is involved in the events, the siblings direct the weapon they hold to their father. Children cannot shoot as they are. However, it is the mother who will suffer. The poor woman is beaten by her husband until the morning.

Then the screen goes dark. And eyes are turned to the colorful world of Amsterdam. Ferry grew up and started working with a not-so-sweet businessman with his sweet-looking hair. Brinks, who is in charge of Amsterdam’s underground business, is closely involved in drug and gang business. He shows Ferry as the man he trusts most and puts him almost before his own son. While everyone is enjoying the bouncy moment on a fun football night, another gang raids the office and shoots Brinks’ son.

In this film we see Ferry himself go undercover for his boss Brink, who does chores for him (getting someone out of the way, for example) and who is like a father to him (although Ferry will also become very disappointed by him). When the Shoarma bar where Brink (Huub Stapel) arranges his drug business is raided by three men and his son Mattijs (Tim Linde) is shot, who is fighting for his life, Brink wants to know who is behind that robbery and that those three will be eliminated .

Ferry looks at the surveillance footage of the kebab shop and investigates to find out who the guy who was on duty is. This is how he ends up with John (Raymond Thiry) who he has not seen for a while and his sister Claudia (Monic Hendrickx) who is suffering from a brain tumor. It brings him to Zonnedauw campsite in Belgium, where he gets to know Danielle who is combining two jobs at the time. At the fair she runs a stand that sells, among other things, love apples and she also cleans people.

Ferry shows that everyone, including criminals, is the result of how they are genetically formed (nature), how they were raised and in which environment (nurture). In the end, it turns out that Daniel’s intuition for Ferry is just right and that she is not so naive: she just follows her heart completely and falls in love quickly. That he is a tough guy but actually has a soft heart, turns out to be the case.

Ferry (Frank Lammers) is going to soak up some local culture, goes to the fair, because the man he is looking for shows up but not at the campsite. Danielle (Elise Schaad) falls in love with Ferry when he tackles her pushy / stalking ex (although she herself is not sure whether the two still have something or not) at the fair when he does not want to leave them alone. Ferry thus becomes her # Me-too hero Avant la letter (after all, we are in the early 2000s, so for the smartphone era: Ferry uses a popular Nokia mobile phone from that time, for example). Through her he comes into contact with XTC for the first time so that they can go on holiday together in their own head. Ferry is so talkative.

The next day, when they’ve had sex even though they’ve only known each other for two days, it all looks a little less romantic. Ferry is allowed to walk the dog Shakira because Danielle is not feeling too well. And a kiss? That is not in it: ‘I would really like to give a kiss, but I just vomited.’ What a wonderful ‘You are a special one, you’ as a reply from Ferry who can even show his romantic side when he talks about the bench at the Skinny Bridge in Amsterdam.

It is therefore somewhat surprising that Ferry is showing “On the Amsterdam canals” by Wim Zonneveld and “Since a day or two” by Doe Maar, but those two songs fit perfectly with this film and how the main characters evolve in it. It is wonderful to see Lammers and Schaad, each in their own way, playing a character who is in love. She plays that young, fresh, fresh infatuation in Sheep’s gaze very well. And Lammers for his part, convincingly portrays an all-in-all conscientious man who struggles with his tough to downright dangerous act, who flies into the heavy alcohol, drugs and bare tits of ladies in a strip club, but Danielle doesn’t end up dating. head. Ah, love!

The Performances

As Ferry, Frank Lammers is thick-set and heavy-browed, trying on the world via a squint and frowny overbite, the product of his prodigious options and certain the final evening’s social gathering favors. He isn’t an enforcer, not less than to American eyes. However, Lammers carries the robust man stuff off in addition to he does teddy bear sensitivity throughout his meet-cutes with Danielle.

The Last Words

Ferry is fast and soiled enjoyable, and performs like an prolonged episode of some little bit of status tv that you simply occurred to drop into. With the lethal credentials of Brink’s crew established, it’s enjoyable to experience together with Ferry as he cruises south and leans on the locals till he finds his man. Huffing, puffing, and protruding like a sore thumb in his Diesels and final evening’s membership shirt, Ferry is nonetheless cagey, assured, and ready to do violence on the drop of a hat.

There are a few emotionally charged sequences that present Ferry’s fraught bond with Claudia, and each Lammers and Hendrick play their hearts out in these scenes. Additionally, the love story between Ferry and Danielle is portrayed very tenderly and hilariously, with a terrific scene that includes each dosing on ecstasy.