Let me start off with saying that i've not read the book, so I'm not gonna judge this movie as an adaptation. But this movie is still awesome. The story of the movie is simple and very common, but well executed. The acting is great and very unexpected. Jeroen Van Koningsbrugge steals the show as a drug dealing husband going crazy. the music is awesome and very well placed. I can't wait to buy the soundtrack. My only complaints are the pacing and accents. pacing is slow sometimes and sometimes people aren't understandable because of their choice of words and accents. And the kids are a little bit underdeveloped too. but overall: It's an awesome dutch movie without spouses cheating on one another (dutch movies do that a lot).

Schone Handen is a fast paced action movie about a drug criminal that has hard times with his deals and the police. His family suffers because of his bad decisions and their smooth life quickly turn into hell. I'm a Belgian so I also do speak Dutch (or our variant Flemish) but even I had difficulties sometimes to follow the very fast talking with their accent from Amsterdam. Luckely it was subtitles and that helped me a lot to understand everything easily. That aside the story is well written, with the right music at the right moment. The soundtrack makes this movie go faster every second. You don't have time to rest because there is action from the beginning till the end. Jeroen van Koningsbrugge has the leading role and he does an excellent job. A good action movie from the Lowlands.