I know this movie has been told from the point of view of one of the mercenaries who wrote about the hijacking. Hence, it felt, in my opinion, that I was not exposed much to the particularities of Mr. Heineken, other than getting to know that the man behind this famous beer brand had indomitable resilience, negotiation skills, and that one of his favorite dishes was the Bang Bang’s chicken.
A famous Heineken’s quote on the film, “there are two ways a man can be rich in this world; he can have a lot of money or he can have a lot of friends, but he cannot have both” sets the mood for the vast majority of the film when doubt, resentment and distrust among the four friends arises and, from that point onward, the whole plot becomes an unsustainable mess.
Anthony Hopkins delivers his role with graceful arrogance, keen curiosity about the planning and execution of his own kidnapping process and an uncanny lack of confidence when time goes by and no one has paid for his ransom just yet.
The roles of the four kidnappers were also fairly convincing if not for the unresolved flaws of this mediocre script that forced me to go on Internet to find the answer to the main question lingering in my mind at the end: what was the clue that tipped off the police in order to identify them as the perpetrators?