Invasion

2024 [DUTCH]

Action / Thriller / War

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 99% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 99% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 834 834

Plot summary

When neighboring country Veragua suddenly attacks Curaçao and Aruba, the Dutch government is taken completely by surprise. The conflict escalates rapidly. Three young Navy recruits must figure out what is the right thing to do.

Director

Bobby Boermans Photo
Bobby Boermans

Top cast

Gijs Scholten van Aschat Photo
Gijs Scholten van Aschat as Maurits Caan
Raymond Thiry Photo
Raymond Thiry as John Brouwer
Fedja van Huêt Photo
Fedja van Huêt as Stan Bot
Gijs Blom Photo
Gijs Blom as Jack
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845.98 MB
1280*536
Dutch 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 9
1.7 GB
1920*804
Dutch 5.1
NR
Subtitles ru   us   nl   ca   fr   ja   es  
24 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MrAki4 3 / 10

And a 3 is very generous. Believe me.

So.. apparently the director also was a part of 'Mocro Maffia' and 'The Golden Hour'.It does not show.The movie is illogical (I can see past factual inaccuracies or mildly unbelievable scenarios because after all this is fiction) to a point that I took my phone out halfway to enjoy myself another way.Acting is okayish, not good, not cringeworthy bad.SFX is okayish, not good, not bad.The story is.. OK.If you have absolutely nothing else to do and you get to watch this movie for free.. go in with low expectations and you might get some entertainment value out of it.Dont expect it to be near the level of 'Mocro Maffia' and/or 'The Golden Hour' though.
Reviewed by wout-scheers 2 / 10

Hilariously bad movie

The script feels like it was written for 4 year olds. Lots of exposition, lots of coincidences that make the plot move forward. Characters just disappearing from the movie so another actor can do his part. Apparently NATO is not a thing anymore in this movie. Aruba only has a total of 10 marines on the islands military base. A marine that just got out of basic knows how to freefall parachute with full kit on. All these things make it a bad movie. However it is also hilariously bad, because of all these aspects. Some of the lines that are delivered are unintentionally funny. The characters are also just caricatures of military personnel what makes it funny. People just finding each other in a vast jungle without a clear reason is also really funny for some reason. All and all I would not recommend this to go and see this in theaters, but watching this at home with some buddies it could be really funny, especially if you know anything about the military.
Reviewed by movieman6-413-929510 3 / 10

Make the Antilles look like the continent of Australia in a simple Risk game.

Invasion is a new action thriller directed by Bobby Boermans. Director of App, Claustrofobia and Fissa. Since Fissa, he has focused more on directing TV series in recent years.In the film, the Dutch ABC Islands are attacked by neighboring country Veragua. Here is a dictator in power who wants revenge on the Netherlands and is therefore attacking the Antilles.Three young, novice marines must resist and keep a Dutch ambassador safe while this enemy invasion is underway.In recent years, director Bobby Boermans has been more concerned with directing TV series such as Mocro Mafia and the Golden Hour. His last directing work was with the film Fissa in 2016. Taking up directing work again after eight years does not seem to go so smoothly for him. The story in this film is told very hastily without any real clear explanation or character development.The enemy invasion also happens a bit too quickly and simply to really take it seriously. You would expect somewhat better defense in the Netherlands Antilles. The film playfully makes it look like the continent of Australia during a simple Risk game. Through too many coincidences they also try to get away with excesses why there is little security or other personnel.For an action thriller about a military attack, the film lacks real tension. The film often remains on the predictable side. Furthermore, the film lacks a real threatening form of the attacking enemy. This threat is also easily resolved in the end.Many action scenes are also animated or contain too many edits between the scenes. This can make many of these scenes difficult to follow. You can sometimes only tell the different groups of soldiers apart if you can see the flag of which country they belong to on their uniforms.The cast members try to perform appropriately in this film, but due to the rushed aspects of the story, most of them have little room to do something with their characters. For example, you don't really know what their names are for most of them, or what their backstory exactly is. Because of this, there are also few good reasons to really care about most of the characters. Some have some small comedic moments, but most of these are also on the predictable side, or have already been given away in the trailers.
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