Exklusiv (1999)

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The first half of the movie is rather a funny experience, though, I'm afraid, only residents will appreciate it (let's face it, there isn't a lot of american-type action movies made in Switzerland...) As a matter of fact, the movie isn't able to surprise the audience more than once, though the cast is giving a reasonable acting. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't work neither as a media thriller as it was conceived to be by the film makers nor as an action movie because of the lack of story (i.e. the story's looking all the time for itself...). The portray of the murderer is by ways too thin.

In "Exklusiv" a reckless journalist is blackmailed and threatened by a murderer. What's really great about the movie is that it got made. It's the only Swiss feature film I know, that didn't rely on governement funding.But what you see is what you get and in "Exklusiv" that isn't really much. Even though the style is rather well copied from Hollywood thrillers, the story presented is rather thin. The movie lacks depth and relies to much on good cinematography. All the same, it's nice to see a Swiss movie.

Well I was looking forward to seeing this movie after all the hype. But then they forgot to switch the Dolby Digital button for the first twenty minutes and I almost couldn't hear what they were talking about. It's a pity because there is hardly ever a movie made in Dolby Digital in Switzerland.A part from that I was surprised how well done the film is made technically. It really looks and sounds good. I extremely liked some of the the one liners like Thurheer's Curling Joke and the one that some "Sendegefässe quer hineinkommen" at TV. But I didn't get the motive of the killer or even who that woman was. Am I the only one who is so stupid or does the film really never explain. Maybe Froschmaier will read this line and can help me out. An other one at the minus side is that you don't care much about Bertschy. His private problems with the VJ are too less shown. And of course is single life hard but why did Froschmayer had to show it so boringly long (coffee and cigarettes in the mornings). The title sequence is also too long. Lots of people at the showing I attended began laughing. But the movie as a whole is good start and I'm looking forward to the next one these guys are going to make.

After homicide of a politician's daughter, a mysterious voice informes a yellow press reporter by phone about time and place of the next assassination attempt. Remarkable debut of Swiss director Florian Froschmeyer with excellent camera-work, stylish pictures but a too fragmentary story. Copies the style of his examples (as Se7en) but never their complexity.