"Komm, süsser Tod" or "Come Sweet Death" is an Austrian German-language movie from over 15 years ago. It was the beginning of the collaboration between Murnberger, Haas and Hader that went on till this date as the fourth and most recent crime movie about Detective Brenner has come out not too long ago. I think, except the new one I have seen all these films and I must say I really loved "Der Knochenmann". But about this 100-minute beginning here, I cannot say I am impressed. Not at all. The characters were not half as colorful as they were in the later installments of this franchise, the dark humour still is not even close to its best and the crime story is also not too compelling to watch, maybe because the antagonists are not half as interesting as Bierbichler's for example.
I must say I am a bit surprised that I ended up disliking this film here. But maybe it is the case like a fine wine and it needed to grow a bit older to become really good. And it's something nice for a change too I suppose as usually the first films are the best when it comes to long-running franchises, but here it is the other way around apparently. The title for my review here is also only partially true as Brenner is already out of his job in here, so we do not find out that much about his time with the force or at least I could say we only find out about it from people telling us about it. Simon Schwarz, the major supporting player, is in this film already too, but he also does not add as much as he does in the later films. Sometimes it also seems that they (or the writer) weren't sure already about how big the character was supposed to become next to Hader. Overall, I give this one a thumbs down and I don't recommend it. It is also not necessary to watch in terms of understanding the later film, so my suggestion is to skip this one and watch one of these newer movies instead, maybe the one I mentioned by name.
I must say I am a bit surprised that I ended up disliking this film here. But maybe it is the case like a fine wine and it needed to grow a bit older to become really good. And it's something nice for a change too I suppose as usually the first films are the best when it comes to long-running franchises, but here it is the other way around apparently. The title for my review here is also only partially true as Brenner is already out of his job in here, so we do not find out that much about his time with the force or at least I could say we only find out about it from people telling us about it. Simon Schwarz, the major supporting player, is in this film already too, but he also does not add as much as he does in the later films. Sometimes it also seems that they (or the writer) weren't sure already about how big the character was supposed to become next to Hader. Overall, I give this one a thumbs down and I don't recommend it. It is also not necessary to watch in terms of understanding the later film, so my suggestion is to skip this one and watch one of these newer movies instead, maybe the one I mentioned by name.