Ismaninb Being Dutch I was very grateful having seen this movie with Dutch subtitles, as I find it very hard to follow Flemish. And I would have hated to watch the movie dubbed with voices speaking standardized Dutch. That is one of the most ridiculous things I can think of! In my opinion De Zaak Alzheimer (I also have read the excellent book) surpasses every single other Belgian or Dutch movie, with the possible exceptions of Paul Verhoeven's excellent De Vierde Man and Bert Haanstra's Fanfare. Superb storytelling, great acting, especially by the seasoned Jan Decleir. This one is a treat for those who love policestories but do not need fastspeed action scenes. Like the famous French policiers De Zaak Alzheimer has a far more realistic feel than the average Hollywood police movie. The opening scene of De Zaak Alzheimer is one of the most disgusting I have ever seen. And no, no gore involved.

kosmasp I watched this as a part of the annual Fantastic Film Festival in Stuttgart and was more than positively surprised by what I saw! A European thriller, that is really good and shouldn't be afraid of any comparisons with a Hollywood movie! This is top notch, in style, suspense and humor! If you let yourself into the story, which might be a bit hard to follow for some, then you will be treated a movie that is one of the best European films the past years. Unfortunately it didn't really had the word-of-mouth recommendation that it deserved, that's why this remains a little known gem. Watch it, if you can ...

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.

whist As other reviewers have pointed out, De Zaak Alzheimer is unremarkable. The movie feel like an episode of a BBC cop series, MI-5 or something of that kind. Not bad for what it is - just not particularly interesting - and a full 2 hours of it. The story is unoriginal and linear, the characters are standard, and the direction is strictly for TV (flashbacks galore and cops standing out in the rain). There's no mystery about who done what, and the whys were entirely predictable. The explication and use of the micturition gag was tiresome. Finally, what I found most irritating was the lighting - red or green bathing every wall and building in the movie, and every person smothered in blue. It just lacks imagination.A couple of qualities I found refreshing. Hearing a variety of languages, none of them English, was cool; if I knew more about the interaction of Dutch, Flemish, and French, I might have found their varied use was a comment on the Belgian social structure. And the dark dance between politics, aristocracy, and morality was interesting but ultimately stillborn once the killing of "all the bad guys" was completed. I'd give this pic a 5 out of 10.