This film start with a man smoking, and another man watching with a binocular scene! As turnout, this film is about a Dutch soldier "Johan" trusting a commander "Raymond", and eventually he end up disobey Raymond, and need to make a run for his life! Entire film full of boring conversation, and annoying overuse scene! Such as, overuse of the walking scene, overuse of the patrolling scene, overuse of the staring scene, overuse of the hallucinate scene, overuse of the arguing scene, overuse of the calling names scene, overuse of the driving scene, overuse of the eating scene, overuse of the smoking scene, overuse of the drinking scene, and overuse of the copulate scene! Make the film unwatchable! At the end, Johan been shot by Raymond, and waiting for the ship to save him! Johan hallucinate he killed himself at the very end! That's it! Another disappointed film!

Story from the colonial territory of dutch indonesia post-ww2, and the ''ethnical'' cleansing of terror cells threatening queen Wilhelminas land and people.

Its a utterly shaking story about a desperate dutch soldier ,who due to his fathers collaboration with the nazis, makes living in holland inhumanely impossible, and with no possible opportunities to get a job or make a living due to traitor blood running through his veins. So he joins the dutch forces of the far east, an edition of an army like the french legionaires, where you are noody and nobody cares what youve done to flee from home.

Its a jungle war movie, its pretty graphic and shocking, and the final scene i didnt see coming. Acting are among the superior that you may find in the pay bass, reminds me of some of the norwegian resistance war movies made in the 2 millenium. Its is slow in periods and splashes the surface , but takes some abrupt deep dives into the matter now and then. There are lots of blood and temporal fragmental eruptions due to summary executions en masse.

Productionwise, it shows that the helmsmen do have experience in the silverscreen craftmanship, the locations are shot in a more palmatic environment than holland can offer. So its not a low budget flick you are in for. Good camera lead, very realistic special effects, and as mentioned a great cast.

On the nether end is the lack of a good timeline, cause there are flashback that makes a grumpy old man confused about where and when. Its also drawn abit long on playtime, but summasummarum, you will be taught and you will be entertained, and you will feel, especially if pure blood dutch, the urge to make some revisions to your own domestic and extraterritorial history curicullum, and it may give some peace on mind to all colonial immigrants of the dutch empire, and may explain some social issues connected to terrorist attakcs done on dutch homeground especially in the 1970's.

A good movie, and ill beg for more revelating movies in the future. Dutch and belgian war movies do get good marks in my movie inventory. A recommend.

Jim Taihuttu's 'The East' is a powerful, yet nuanced, anti-war film that captures the cumulative costs of battle on a man. Taihuttu combines a number of violent and gruesome visuals with a glimpse into the psyche of the fighting man to emphasizes the bleakness atmosphere of wartime. And thanks to the highly compelling performances by Martijn Lakemeier and Marwan Kenzari, 'The East' managed to convey the finest of its moments.