Patser

Know those two belgian directors that worked on Bad Boys 3?  Well, this is the movie that landed them that job.

Patser is a flemish movie going about a problem here in Flanders, and more specifically in Antwerp, namely the so-called "Patser", a youngling showing off all his wealth obtained through non-legal ways, often drug trafficing.

The movie follows Adama, a bloke of mixed moroccan and italian heritage, who together with his friends wants to get up the petty crime ladder.  He deals a bit of hasj on the side, a business obtained by his uncle Farid and his late father.  But when a large drugbaron from Holland, Orlando Marie, looks towards the port of Antwerp to import his coke instead of through Rotterdam, Adamo convinces his uncle to go into business with him.

Their first heist from the dockyards immediately goes wrong, and brings them already in trouble.  But they make the mistake of selling a bit of coke that had fallen off side.

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Okay, that might read weird, but baby Thorin decided to contribute to the review as well.

So, what as I was saying, this result of course in the money coming in, but also attracting the attention of the higher ups, so they decide to go on holidays to Morocco.  Here they cross a dutch kingpin, Hassan Kamikaze, and this will come back to haunt them as the Colombian cartel finds out they stole their cocaine... and it is a nice twist it actually has two endings: a very happy one... and one where it doesn`t fan out that well in the end.

It was a good movie, with nice action and some typical Antwerp references.  What made it special for me, is that I know a lot of the places featured in the film realy well.  Like where a dutch druglord is executed by dutch police impersonating assassins, this wasn`t actually in Holland but right behind my old bedroom in the parental house.

The movie did cause a lot of controversy here though, as it glorifies in a way the gains of a patser, while if you are careful you might not get to much trouble... though the second part might not be that true, as the city has been ravaged the past months by shootings and grenade attacks of rivalling drugfamilies...