[ad_1]
Quick check
Vienna “Tatort”
Steroids don’t help: “crime scene” reports hobble back from summer break
Vienna “crime scene” scene: Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) interrogate employees of a gym where the murder victim frequented.
© ORF / Allegro Film / Hubert Mican / ARD Degeto
The “crime scene” reports on the summer holidays: a regular customer of a Viennese gym is found dead on the train tracks. A thriller that unfortunately is not as narrow as the bodies of the athletes that are shown in it.
- 3 out of 5 points
- A moderately exciting “crime scene” that only happens too late than it’s really about
What happens?
A corpse found next to the train tracks takes the Viennese duo Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) to a small Viennese gym where the victim trained. Although unemployed, the dead man was driving a luxurious sports car. A strange list of addresses on his laptop encourages the two investigators to suspect that he may have been dealing in illegal substances. His colleague Manfred Schimpf (Thomas Stipsits) infiltrates the studio undercover and puts himself in great danger.
Why is this “crime scene” worth it?
“Pumps” first provides a comprehensive view of the scene of people inflating their bodies with steel and sometimes banned substances. The misshapen cop Schimpf has corresponding difficulties robbing and contacting his undercover investigations – he just doesn’t take it seriously. “Would you give me any advice on how to speed it up a bit, with muscles and such?” He asks an athlete. He replies with disdain: “In your case, it is born again.” The first episode of “Tatort” after the summer holidays offers a good glimpse into a world in which a defined body is everything.
That annoys?
As often happens in “Tatort”, the murder has nothing to do with the actual subject of the film. In this case, it is only at the end that it becomes clear that the murder victim was not involved in the trade in steroids or similar substances, but rather something much bigger is involved. But there is hardly time to go into more details. Too.
The commissioners?
Bibi Fellner goes through a roller coaster in this “crime scene”: at first we see her naked under the shower of her lover, in the end she is almost killed twice. In between there is a bad suspicion and the subsequent reconciliation with her boyfriend. This time Moritz Eisner remains discreetly in the background and forms the calm opposite pole.
Turn on or off?
This “crime scene” wants too much and contains too many topics in 90 minutes. Wait another week to start the new season “Tatort”.
Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner also determined in these cases:
