Kidnapping
Freddy Heineken
**
Dir: Daniel Alfredson. With: Jim Sturgess,
Anthony Hopkins, Sam Worthington, Ryan Kwanten. 95 mins. Cert: 15
The 1983 kidnapping
of the Dutch brewing magnate here forms the basis of an understimulating caper
with a confused attitude towards its would-be Everyman protagonists: criminal
masterminds when plotting a speedboat escape along Amsterdam’s canals, they
revert to gormless idiocy when faced with a photocopier. (Sam Worthington’s
booming Strine accent would appear a liability from the off.) As Heineken,
Anthony Hopkins enjoys a nice sit down in a small room for ninety minutes,
while Swedish director Daniel Alfredson pushes the early-Eighties aesthetic
beyond a joke: we’re left peering through dishwater levels of murk at
third-or-fourth choice actors sporting persistently unflattering haircuts. Take
beer goggles.
Kidnapping Freddy Heineken opens in selected cinemas from today.
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