Skip to main content Prime Time Review: A Polish Man Takes a TV Studio Hostage in Slick but Hollow Netflix Thriller Prime Time Review: A Polish Man Takes a TV Studio Hostage in Slick but Hollow Netflix Thriller
The star of Corpus Christi returns as another antihero, but Jakub Piatek s debut feature gives him little to rebel against.
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With: Bartosz Bielenia, Magdalena Poplawska, Andrzej Klak, Malgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Cezary Kosinski, Dobromir Dymecki, Monika Frajczyk, Juliusz Chrzastrowski.
Running time: Running time: 91 MIN.
After roiling a Polish village as an impostor priest in Oscar-nominated “Corpus Christi,” star Bartosz Bielenia tries to rattle the entire nation in “Prime Time.” His character here is another malcontent, this one armed and ready to take over a TV studio on New Year’s Eve with a special message for the world. But he’s a bit too literally a rebel without a cause: We never discover ju
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Using TV as his background, Piątek brings back the archive footage, and it s almost sad to see all that now, with kids building three-metre-tall igloos because they “want to achieve something extraordinary”, and so does everyone else on that day. In theory, at least, as – possible spoilers ahead –
Prime Time is a story about a potentially revolutionary gesture running up against a wall of bureaucracy and other people s apathy, the extent of which Sebastian (
Bartosz Bielenia) is about to discover.
A young man with the kind of baggage the debuting Piątek only lets you glimpse, he is desperate enough to hijack a TV studio in order to deliver his message live, without exactly stating what said message would be – in keeping with the film s insistence on not explaining a damn thing, ever. The fact that he takes two people, a well-known presenter and a security guard (
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