The first part of this mini TV-serial seemed to me to be pretty ridiculous. Bad photography and lighting resulting in strange pale colors, overuse of computer animated settings making it all look like a computer game, bad acting, cheesy script,... you get the picture. But still the first part made me watch the second part (maybe because nothing better was on that evening), and this time I was really drawn into it! First of all the script was better: Instead of some overused adventure-movie clichés Störtebecker now had a very human motivation for his plans and one could really feel what he felt. The performances also got better this time, and while there were still some silly and staged looking fight scenes and one still had to get used to all the artificial-looking photography and computer animated settings, all in all the second part was much better than the first one. But what really got me was the ending. The way they depicted Störtebecker's tragic death and how he in fact just wanted to serve justice and freedom was very, very intense. (And yes, bot the main actor and his male best friend looked very sexy with the long hair and the beard!)
Review of Störtebeker
