Bene Cumb De Zaak Alzheimer is a decent crime thriller where "mandatory" elements (dead bodies, shootings, explosions, chases) are in place, but a serious mental illness of a bad guy provides interesting and distinct opportunities to move beyond a trivial cat-and-mouse play. Moreover, flashbacks and retrospects are not annoying/over-exploited, but just in the right place at the right time. The ending is also multiple, not single. However, the inclusion of child abuse issue was probably undue as it is so sensitive issue in Belgium.The cast is rather strong, but not all the characters are elaborated, especially those of policemen. Thus, the catchiest was Jan Decleir as Angelo Ledda, whose making out in different circumstances was interesting to follow. Nevertheless, the film is a pleasant difference from Hollywood crime thrillers, with many nice similarities with Scandinavian ones. Recommended for a broader, different picture.

whpratt1 Enjoyed viewing this Belgium Film concerning a murder mystery involving a very high government official. Eric Vincke, (Koen DeBouw) and Freddy Verstuyft, (Werner DeSmedt) are both of Belgium's best detectives who are assigned to this case which involves many dark dirty facts that eventually become revealed. There is a very young girl about 12 or 13 who escapes being killed and then a hit man appears named Angelo Ledda,(Jan Decleir) who has Alzheimer's and is assigned to kill this young girl. There is one sex scene with a Belgium Prostitute which adds some so called romance to the film. Despite the hit man having Alzheimer's, he is deadly with a weapon and hand to hand combat for an older man. Enjoy, it was very entertaining.

Cristi_Ciopron All the movies about a tough and doomed man (who is often an outlaw) that is under straitened circumstances,cornered, hunted,need a strong actor:he is Mickey Rourke,or Russell Crowe,or Gabin,Montand, Bogart, Bronson, Kitano--this rank of actors;De Zaak Alzheimer has Jan Decleir as Angelo Ledda,a ferocious,sinister hit-man.Erik Van Looy brings a welcome stream of realism in this class of story. An old and gravely ill assassin,Angelo Ledda,accepts another job, and he murders a businessman,Bob Van Camp (played by Lucas Van Den Eijnde),then he takes away the corpse.An young inspector,Eric Vincke (i.e.,Koen De Bouw),who just dismantled, in a thrilling operation,the business of a father who was trading his own daughter,turning his home into a brothel for pedophiles,must now find the missing Van Camp,whose wife (Els Dottermans) has not a very good opinion about her now disappeared husband.Erik Van Looy's fast paced movie switches from Vincke's itinerary (the pimp's apartment;Van Camp's disappearing;Van Camp's wife;Vincke's chief and colleagues: Tom Coemans and Linda De Leenheer and Freddy Verstuyft,etc.) to Angelo Ledda's:we see the old-man taking a new job,traveling through Anvers,fighting with Bob Van Camp,then almost being caught unawares by his victim's daughter;then,Angelo Ledda visiting his brother, accepting another job,meeting the girls he must now kill,then refusing to murder her,etc.).A very special and notable feature of The Alzheimer Case is its striking and impressing display:the scenes,the characters,the plot,and even the ordinary retorts,the casual lines exchanged by the characters ( Vincke and his mates speaking about a colleague's bottom (that is,Hilde De Baerdemaeker's bottom),or about their chief,or about cars and insurances,and Vincke colliding with the policeman).We are spared from love affairs.The cast is excellent,and the main villain,a Baron (Baron Gustave De Haeck) is,as the political correctness claims it,a very pious Catholic,so the fashionable strong dose of anti-catholicism is delivered promptly by Erik Van Looy.The characters,and the cast,have beautiful names.

sandrasguy In Hollywood history you find great cop classics like Maltese Falcon and Dirty Harry. Hollywood substituted substance with CGI years ago, and we've been stuck with poorly written, bloody, explosion strewn messes ever since. Myself, being a fan of the 1940 type of film with true acting and writing, finds today's Hollywood efforts sadly lacking.I have turned to euro films to find true acting and well written stories. In Memory of a Killer, there is a modern day classic, a must have for fans of the Bogart type movies with feel and substance.The movie opens with something that makes most of us sick to our stomach-a father selling his twelve year old daughter for sexual purposes. The Police bust in (Thank God) and set forth a chain of events that take us deep into the heart of darkness of man complicated by bureaucratic bumbling. The buddy cops can be a cliché in most films, but the buddy cops in this movie never sink into the stupidness found in the cop film genre.The Angelo Ledda character (the assassin) is John Wayne type in his take no prisoners approach in his crusade to wipe out a protected group who have been preying on children. We almost cheer as he kills each one in cold blood.A truly excellent film not only worth the price of rental, but also of owning.