2024-04-29 18:43:55
Sunday’s “Tatort” reached a large audience, but the reviews of the case with Max Ballauf’s soul striptease were very different.
Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are without a doubt one of the most popular teams in the “Tatort” universe. In Sunday’s crime thriller, the murder case seemed to have become a minor matter. Instead, the focus was placed on one of the commissioners.
Over nine million viewers didn’t miss “This time it’s different,” as the episode was titled, which corresponded to an excellent market share of around 34 percent. So a third of everyone who watched TV on Sunday evening tuned in to “Tatort” on the first. However, audience reviews were mixed.
“An intense spectacle”
Emanuela Krainer writes: “It was boring at first, but then the topic became interesting and the case exciting. The people of Cologne are great actors,” notes the t-online reader.
“This ‘crime scene’ really appealed to me. It was an intense play by a very approachable Max Ballauf,” says Classify Airborne. “His desperation in solving the case was palpable and touched me very much. As a team, they were great as always. Freddy is an absolute prize as a colleague.”
“Too ambitious”
Rudi Fath However, I didn’t like the film: “It seemed too ambitious to give depth and psychological reflexivity to the rather superficial characters. In my opinion, that damages the previous attractiveness of this team compared to the others.”
“It was a bit of a private drama, but overall it was very well done and exciting,” says Martina Miller. “Klaus J. Behrendt embodied his role very authentically. Dietmar Bär was also great as an initially uncomprehending and then compassionate colleague. Leslie Malton, on the other hand, plays the same characters over and over again. She is always the bad one, which makes her unsympathetic per se.”
“A film with lengths”
Klaus Brock makes a negative judgment about the “crime scene” shown: “It feels like Ballauf is in a relationship with the suspect in every third film. Is Cologne so small that this can always happen?” he asks mockingly. “I also didn’t really understand how emotionally affected he was; somehow I’ve seen that at least once too often.
I found his alleged self-reflection that he was a police officer and not a human being annoying. Who writes sentences like that in the script?” For the t-online reader, “This time it’s different” was “a film with lengths that often seemed intentional.”