★ 8 / 10
For a fan like I am of thrillers
Pooran S
For a fan like I am of thrillers, suspense,mystery, action movies, this Polish gem on Netflix is a taut , emotional, intelligent Police procedural of solving a…
For a fan like I am of thrillers, suspense,mystery, action movies, this Polish gem on Netflix is a taut , emotional, intelligent Police procedural of solving a violent crime .
For viewers who enjoy more of real slice of life, eschewing the over the top action , gravity & physics defying stunt movies, then Justice with it's grounded yet taut treatment is a treat , as it's well paced, cerebral and satisfying.
Actor Olaf Lubaszencko playing the lead cop delivers a terrific performance as the aged, experienced, tough, intelligent, relentless investigating officer and actor Jedrzej Hycnar as Kaspar is quite superb too.
Certainly a recommended watch .
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★ 7 / 10
Justice, AKA Napad, from Michal Gazda, is a
Gabriel S
Justice, AKA Napad, from Michal Gazda, is a slow-driven thriller and drama story about the battle of wills between a senior detective from the Communist Era…
Justice, AKA Napad, from Michal Gazda, is a slow-driven thriller and drama story about the battle of wills between a senior detective from the Communist Era and a young man who would do anything to get his life together. It is a solid story about the effects of trauma on younglings, trauma on the elderlies, and the aftermath of Communism in Eastern Europe, all in beautiful white Poland.
The story follows Tadeusz Gadacz, a former Polish Secret Services agent that gets a final chance to redeem himself by solving the hit and run robbery of a Polish bank that is at the eye of the Government to try to move Poland forward economically. To crack the case, Tadeusz must buddy cop with Aleksandra Janicka, a rookie trying to do what is right.
Napad follows classic buddie cop dynamics: one is senior, the other is newbie, one would do anything, the other wants to do what is right. Overall, Napad is entertaining mainly for its seriousness, the tone really giving characters that breadth of reality in the freezing cold, brutalism Polish landscape.
But some traits are off. For starters, the movie fails to develop enough the main characters. We get our fair share of dialogue exposition, but all of them clearly have solid backstories that we get to only imagine, thus weakening the power of this movie's ending.
Another pet peeve is the lack of better buddy cop interaction. Tadeusz likes to work alone, but Aleksandra seems to never try to take matters into her own terms, so we never really see her growing. The movie is really interested on showing the battle of wills between Tadeusz and the antagonist, which is solid, but some of the secondary characters feel almost dismissible because of this focus.
Nonetheless, Napad delivers an above-average crime drama, one that should hook serious watchers for a good treat. It might fail a bit on character development, but the sum of all elements culminates in a film that is somewhat a nice hidden gem.
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