That was an excellent one.

Nice effects though.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This is the film that Yavuz Turgul's works in the police style this time, always having problems such as social transformation, development, decay. In the film, Şener Şen plays a well-intentioned, brave-hearted, sensible, disturbing character as it was in his previous films.The most serious conflict of the av season is between the idealist police officer ferman (şener şen), the business man who came from Adana and later became wealthy, Battal bey (tough tekindor). This is a conflict we are accustomed to seeing in the cinema of yavuz turgul. Eşkiya Movie (baran and berfo) and Muhsin Bey Movie (Muhsin Bey and Laz Nurettin).Yavuz turgul used the detective style only as a backdrop. Main theme, social events, rich - poor - middle class morality (if any). Is a middle-class man who is often oppressed in his films. Because what we call 'morality' is a value of the middle class. The moral definitions of upper and lower classes are very variable.The film ends with a sad optimism as if it were in other turgul movies; Justice has been partially found but many lives and values ​​ have been lost.

The movie is set in one of the Homicide Dept.in Istanbul, and we have three homicide detectives as leads and each of them represent 3 different eras. Those leads are Sener Sen, Cem Yilmaz and Okan Yalabik. They play their parts considerably well, and we have great director Yavuz Turgul which altogether is a great promise. But that promise is never fulfilled by the weak plot of the movie. We see the crime and we see the clue right in the middle of the movie. That clue ruined me the better experience which movie was promising in the beginning. Cem Yilmaz' acting was good but sometimes felt that he was overacting. Still his versatility stuns us. Sener Sen was great as always in such underwritten role. He plays so easily and creates truly believable character. Okan Yalabik doesn't shine as a rookie cop, but still shows some potential. Cetin Tekindor is great as a main antagonist. But as I said before movie fails to keep its promise due to its weak and predictable script. Overall the movie is OK for a one-time watch

Well, to be honest I was expecting much more of this from Yavuz Turgul, after Gönül Yarası and Eşkiya. Besides some certain wrong connotations and wrong ways of acting, the movie's overall fluctuating search for a rhythm make me said this. What you expect from a police thriller is tension and curiosity, but I've lost both in the middle of the movie. The story of the homicide policemen took its place in the core, and I forgot the story of late Pamuk. The good part of the movie was its uniqueness, while Turkish cinema followers are not familiar to watch such genre in Turkish Cinema. I hope it'd be a good start and the level goes up every time. For Turgul, I hope there will be another masterpiece in two years. For Sener Sen, there is not much to say, however in the start the preaching part seems so artificial, it seems Sen is reading from a prompter, but for the rest, he's the best. Cem Yılmaz is still striving to become an actor, but he's done a good job also, especially the sad moments. For the rest of the cast, there seems not so brilliant acting to me. In conclusion, the movie is worth watching for Sener Sen and for its being unique for Turkish Cinema. And if you want to enjoy it more, forget it's a Yavuz Turgul movie, than you'll expect less. Best Wishes

Well where to begin? If this film wouldn't have so much flaws. It would be average at best. I mean the cinematography isn't breathtaking or great as some other reviews described. The shots where pretty simple and nothing really original was done to take it to a higher level. The story is pretty standard, just because it was thickened a bit with an insight of the personal lives of the main characters doesn't make it a better story, on the contrary. From the beginning one could tell that there wasn't much budget to make this film. The film begins with a cheap looking title sequence, that is, if your used to the wonderful designed (Hollywood) titles at the beginning of films. Okay this is one thing that can easily be overlooked though. Than the film starts with the finding of an arm that has been cut off. And this arm unfortunately looked too plastic. It just didn't look real. And then when the unnecessary voice-over kicked in, I knew it would be a long sit. And I was right. What bothered me the most was that there wasn't any balance in this film. Was it trying to be a (black) comedy of some sort? A family drama? A crime thriller? It tried to be all of it at the same time and failed miserably. One of the worst mistakes stories/films can make is not able to make any choice at all. This was one of those stories. SOME SPOILERS AHEAD For example: the character of Cem Yilmaz brought numerous times too much of his comic acting in his role as if the director just let him do what he always does and play some sort of a comical character. This comical effect was made even greater by the suddenness of it. Like at one point the characters being at a stakeout one moment and tension is being build up and another moment the characters are in some sort of a 'A-team' cowboy shootout. Where the 'bad'guys are spraying Uzi machine guns around. Another moment where one could tell that Cem Yilmaz was definitely miscast was when his character was dying and people in the theater actually started laughing as if he where going to say or do something funny in the process of it. Another thing that really annoyed me was the pace of the film. I mean, why did the film had to drag on for an hour more if the plot was already revealed after 90 minutes or so. But no, instead of wrapping it up, they choose to let it drag and drag as if the ending would be such a surprise. All the insights in the personal lives also seemed unnecessary it just seemed too forced or too much. And the whole rookie part could've better been left out. In the end his character seemed to insignificant. Insignificant also was the voice over which had absolutely no function and made the film even more cliché. MORE SPOILERS AHEAD Other things that really bothered were plot holes like: Cem Yilmaz' character who goes to his ex with plans of (maybe) killing her and then when he sits on the couch right in front of her, he gently, but very clearly pulls out a gun and holds it next to him and she (acts) as if she doesn't see the gun... YEAH RIGHT. And then all of a sudden when he is about to pull the trigger, the electricity is cut off. (oh what a coincidence). Or another thing: they go to a doctor to get some information and ask the guy a couple of questions. The doctor answers that he absolutely cannot give them any information, it's supposedly classified. So then they ask, 'okay then give us the address of the previous doctor that can give us all the information we want'. And of course the address is given. Then when they enter the home of the other doctor the guy sits on a couch with his hand under a pillow. Was he sitting there on that exact spot for a week or so waiting for people? And then he pulls out a gun from underneath the pillow and kills himself. Then next to him they find a PC with an application open which has the all the information on it to solve the whole case. Or one more thing: a very clear footprint and tire mark side by side at the crime seen, which belongs to a billionaire who himself try to get rid of a body. As if he doesn't have people that does his dirty jobs? These things occurred throughout the whole film. The only decent performance was from Sener Sen and Cetin Tekindor. As one would expect. I'm sorry but I absolutely cannot recommend this film to anyone. Especially those who have seen TV shows like Law and Order and CSI. Because even those TV shows are better written. Or better yet just watch Mystic River, Zodiac, Seven, Lovely Bones or even The Chaser if you want to see a film with similar themes but far better executed.