Review of Hop

Hop (2002)
2/10
A bad story and a bad movie
11 October 2002
Justin (Kalomba Mbuyi) is convincing as a teenager who wants to defend his father (Dieudonné) who has to be expelled while he has no residence-license and that is one of the few good things of this movie. He is given shelter by Frans (Jan Decleir), an old revolutionary who is making bombs (!) and who is setting him up against the authorities. This movie may be conform to the Belgian politically-correct standards but is not showing the real language situation in Belgium with the Flemish and the French-speaking part and it is not the first Belgian digitally made movie (that was: "Jouissance des hystériques, La - Opus 4 (2000)". The director Dominique Standaert should have made a documentary and not a movie as he is not capable of telling us a good story. I got the impression that the director wants us to feel compassion with the situation of the people living illegally in Belgium. How good this intention may be, that is not enough to make a good movie.
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