Netflix’s Dutch thriller iHostage has captured the viewers’s consideration with its gripping story. The film will preserve you glued to your seat from the start to the tip. It revolves round an armed man who enters an Amsterdam department of the Apple retailer and takes everybody hostage.
He’s not a looter or a legal however solely a person demanding cash to proper the wrongs that he believes have been achieved in opposition to him. Surprisingly, the story is impressed by real-life occasions. In February 2022, a person disguised himself and entered an Apple retailer with two weapons.
The shop was situated in a busy sq. on the coronary heart of Amsterdam. Though some individuals managed to flee the shop, the attacker held a number of individuals inside the shop hostage, together with a Bulgarian man.
Yahoo reported that the attacker demanded €200 million (£172 million) in cryptocurrency and requested for the promise that he would be capable to go away the town as soon as he escaped safely.
The attacker managed to maintain individuals captive for a tense few hours. Nonetheless, the Bulgarian captive’s courageous and fast motion enabled the assault to come back to an finish. In accordance with The Guardian, Dutch police praised the courageous captive for taking part in a “hero” function.
“In a number of cut up seconds, he escaped this hostage scenario; in any other case, it might have been a good longer night time and a nasty night time,” the officer mentioned.
The Netflix film is informed by way of completely different views – the captive, the attacker, and the emergency companies that paraded outdoors the shop. “When a gunman enters an Apple Retailer within the coronary heart of Amsterdam, the police face a fragile problem to resolve the standoff. Based mostly on true occasions,” says the official synopsis.
Soufiane Moussouli performs the captive within the movie whereas Eric Corton performs the attacker. The film has carved out a singular area of interest within the true crime drama style.
iHostage is now streaming on Netflix.