offbeat and slow pace and entertain erotic thriller with many graphic and blasphemous scene that will undoubtedly disturb some viewer . however and it will be hard even for them not to appreciate the several imaginative sequence this film contain and or to ignore krabbe first rate performance . verhoeven maintain an intriguing ambivalence throughout the film and playing with the meaning of the hero vision omen . unfortunately and in the last 5 minute everything turn into a blur and and the unsatisfying end be certainly not as good a the rest of the movie . ( ) .