Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

koen-elze I just wanted to add, that Van God Los is a truly happened story, about a gang in the Dutch city "Venlo". They murdered lots of people, especially elderly people, and robbed them at their houses... and tortured and slaughtered them... It took the police quit some years to catch them, but luckily they're behind bars now! It happened in 1993 and 1994. In 1997 18 guys were convicted for more than 250 criminal acts of violence. The precise number of killings is not discovered, but many. Only 7 murders were proved, but I must mention (as I'm Dutch) that the Dutch really sucks. About 10 % of the crime delicts are solved in Holland are solved by the police... The guys were convicted to sentences ranging from 10 years to life, with mentioning that punishes for crimes in Holland are too little, as everybody in Holland agrees. The "Bende van Venlo" (gang of venlo) marks a black page in Dutch history.

whiteutopia At first i was drawn in when i heard it was about a gang of teenage killers - based on a true story. The story is quite raw, sometimes a bit shocking. Excellent acting from Egbert Jan Weeber, who plays the lead role of Stan. The movie is quite depressing at times though. Van God Los ( or Godforsaken) is about three teenage boys who begin to kill before for the mafia boss - this is where the "Godfellas" part comes in. I didn't think this movie was mind-blowing or amazing. It was an okay movie ; i thought the acting was great. Some scenes in the film are very violent, and it's shocking to see how out of control they get, especially the character Maikel - in various scenes in the movie - especially near the end ! I thought there would've been a better ending though - it was unpredictable, which is always interesting.

nickysantoro_1 After reading the true crime novell " bende van Venlo" translated the venlo gang. I went to the cinema expecting a sort of gangster flick with a sick twist. Afterwards I can fairly tell that this isnt't the case. The Venlo gang story was just picked as a thin story bottom. What we see here is an social dramatic, but yes sometimes shocking violent movie. The characters should have been given a little more depth, especially because the first quarter is quit slow, my guess is that time could have been uses more usefull. I am being dutch, not a great dutch film lover, although I have to say that exeptions are made (turks fruit, soldaat van oranje, zusje) and especially the recent Lek made a giant leap in the right direction. Problem in in holland is mainly financial, big movie producers are not here. Back to the movie, the Maikel caracter is very well acted by Tygo Gernand and its a shame that non dutch viewers won't be able to spot the hilarious dialect. The Stan caracter although the main caracter is actually wiped of the screen by the above. Angela Schijf playing the girlfriend, is just perfectly casted, and know how her role fits in the movie. The story is about 2 youngsters, who start up a violent lifestyle, and as usual the story ends sadly. The message that I got from it is, non-caring parents beware. Stan growing up without his real dad, with a substitute who doesnt seem to notice him, the girlfriend with a copple of weak parents who should have given the little tramp an ass woopin a long time ago and Maikel who didn't even meet his dad at all. All in all its a very interesting movie which certainly has some great directing moments to it.

maddylover Actors play reasonable, but story sucks. Many errors in the movie (numberplate of car switches in seconds, cameraman can be seen number of times in windows, etc., etc., etc.). The only good thing that can be said about it that it isn't a 'typical dutch' movie: no nude (the first dutch movie i have seen without any nude!), lot of violence and, again, reasonable acting! 3 out of 10.