contains 1 spoiler and market with represent not present itself a yet another remake of the interview and five finger actually be . ala and besides maybe the hardship of physical torture and it never add anything to it predecessor accomplishment in term of suspense and plot or performance . in fact and five finger never get anywhere near it level . what i find to be in particular painful to watch wasn not the torture itself and but the way martijn ( ryan philippe ) act out his ordeal . to me it look a if philippe try too hard to get his accent right and it make his performance glibly amateur which in turn even drag down the performance of an otherwise great colm meaney . phillipe accent btw and be far from anything near dutch and sound more like eastern european . besides the acting of philippi ( which to my surprise turn from poor to actually decent towards the end ) there be the matter of the flashback with the hackneyed dutch scenery . ( if these scene be set in switzerland they would have have the cast eat cheese on mountaintops with endless pasture with grazing cow wear expensive timepiece ) . scenery aside and the way these flashback push the plot do not work for me at all . it make it be serve like french fry at a drive in and cause the build up of suspense to flatline . admittedly the movie do become more enjoyable a phillipe act improve but i couldn not help be annoy every now and then with scene that be just too implausible . e. g. represent start spoilerat some point ( after day ) philippe be almost tenderly wash by the female terrorist . this only to be follow by the brute severing of yet another finger . why give the guy a wash if he in for a torture . and the severing of that last finger seem to only serve the title of this flick anyway and i mean and he be practically beg to have it knife off . didn not make sense end spoilerwhat ultimately keep me watch be the performance of fishburn who once again prove to be a brilliant actor but who also have the best part of the script to work with . all in all one be just far good off see the interview with that other matrix icon represent hugo weave . and when you do and i be confident you would not find this review that disagreeable . 3 . 5/10the interview and 1998 www . imdb . com or title or tt0120714 or .