It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Daan Schuurmans - not my favorite actor, to put it mildly, but I remembered seeing bits from the Bellicher miniseries that came before this, and didn't find it to be all bad. So I had a go at this TV-movie.The plot is completely silly, mixing two big and real issues (identity theft and a government interfering with civil rights for the sake of national security) into a laughable premise, with a lot of terrible dialogues.Schuurmans is again unconvincing, and the rest of the cast is not impressive either. Anna Drijver and Anniek Pheifer are easy on the eye, so that's a plus.'Bellicher: cel' is at times quite agreeable in a cinematographic sense, and there are some pretty good moments action-wise.All in all, quite unsatisfactory. 3 out of 10.

An almost perfect life can suddenly be transformed into a nightmare you might wish you could wake up from. But when everything leads to believe you are nothing but the culprit, problems can take a lot longer to fix. "Bellicher: Cel" is a good Dutch thriller that deals with stolen identity and the numerous wrong situations that make the victim distrust anyone trying to help. Making justice with our own hands is sometimes the first thought after being denied assistance from the police, but that usually complicates the problem even further and the only way out is proving by one way of the other that you are nothing but innocent. And if in the end everything looks like a government misunderstanding, you realize you are nothing but a pawn in a game of political chess. Good entertainment.