Oops, hopefully her sweetheart Bas Smit has arranged some sponsored tissues, because Nicolette van Dam has received a nasty review. How many stars does she get? Three? Two? “No, ONE!”
Anyone who thinks that her influence on Instagram is already cringeworthy has not yet seen her acting: it is not without reason that Nicolette van Dam only plays in Johan Nijenhuis-like B-junk. She had two premieres last week; that of her children’s film Juf Braaksel 2 and that of the Nijenhuis film De Jackpot.
“That movie fails!”
Aram Isaac, the film critic of Film totalhas taken the trouble to go see that Miss Braaksel children’s film and comes back with a scathing review. Out of five stars, Nicolette only gets one. “The film fails on such a deep level that it is already a failure at its core,” he sneers.
The most sad thing are the ’embarrassing and unacceptable technical errors’, says Aram. “Anyone who was responsible for this should be ashamed of themselves. For example, there is a scene in which Lotte, the main character, responds verbally to something, but no sound can be heard. (…) There is simply a piece of dialogue missing.”
Bad acting
Does the acting of Nicolette and her colleagues make up for this? No, says Aram. “If only one actor is good or bad, that’s on the actor. If everyone, including a number of excellent actors, feels as if they have no more experience than the final musical of group eight, the director is doing something very wrong.”
Nicolette can’t save things either, he says. “Nicolette van Dam, as teacher Brakel, also clearly does not receive the right instructions to find the right balance between malicious, competent and serious.”
‘Very cheap’
How Aram would describe Nicolette’s film? A ‘cheap, worn-out product’. “That is simply disrespectful. Children may have different standards, but that doesn’t mean they deserve low quality.”
“Whether someone is actually proud of the end product is difficult to say, but there is clearly little passion in it. Is it haste, disinterest or pure incompetence? The problems of Miss Braaksel and the Genius Escape are so poignant that it is a wonder that people want to link their names to this film.”
The worst thing for Nicolette? The review of The Jackpot is yet to come…