The Treatment (2014, Belgium)
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Running time: 130 minutes
Language: Dutch
The Treatment 2014 Belgian mystery classic movie review
Police detective Nick Cafmeyer is called to take part in an investigation of an unusual crime - someone has broken into a house, tied the parents to pipes and took their young son Robin. Cafmeyer has a dark past that still haunts him - when he was a kid his younger brother disappeared, most likely kidnapped by a paedophile Ivan Plettinckx, who lived nearby. Now as a grown man, Nick still can’t forgive himself that his brother vanished after an argument they had, and feels guilty he did not find him. Plettinckx is released from prison, and Cafmeyer suspects he could have something to do with the kidnapping of Robin. Unfortunately, due to high temperature, both parents were badly dehydrated, and they couldn’t give a statement before they could receive a medical treatment. Even when Robin’s father is fit to give a statement, his story gives the police very little information - they were assaulted in the house and the kidnapper made him choose between him and his son, but there is no way to learn the details. Cafmeyer wants to pin this crime on Plettinckx, but when the body of Robin is found high in the trees, he has his doubts if an elderly paedophile would be able to overpower both parents and carry the child. Nevertheless, in order to find the killer, Cafmeyer has to face his own demons and sink into the dark world of the paedophile network.
A Belgian crime mystery movie based on a British novel The Treatment by Mo Hayder, presents the dark and cold reality of police investigation into a kidnapping and murder of a young boy. The main character, detective Cafmeyer, has to find more information that he was able to gather in case of his own brother, who probably was also kidnapped by paedophile years ago. The crime is unusual, the plot involving, the reality cold and dark - everything that is needed to keep the viewers interested from the beginning until the end.
Do you like unsolved mysteries?
Our rating |
7.6 / 10 |
Movie value |
8 / 10 |
Realism factor |
4 / 5 |
Adventure factor |
3 / 5 |
Story complexity |
4 / 5 |
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Cast of The Treatment
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as Nick Cafmeyer | |
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as Danni Petit | |
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as Ivan Plettinckx | |
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as Steffi Vankerkhove | |
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as Roland Claeren | |
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as Hans Vankerkhove | |
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as Nancy Lammers |
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