“Crime Scene: Loss of Control”
How will the penultimate Janneke and Brix case turn out?
Lucas (Bela Gábor Lenz) and Anette Baer (Jeanette Hain) in “Tatort: Loss of Control”.
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In “Crime Scene: Loss of Control” Janneke and Brix have to solve the murder of a gamer. Is it worth turning on the penultimate case?
Commissioner Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich, 63) and her colleague Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch, 61) from Frankfurt am Main investigate the “Crime Scene: Loss of Control” (December 26th, 8:15 p.m., the first) for the penultimate time.
That’s what “Crime Scene: Loss of Control” is all about
Sculptor Annette Baer (Jeanette Hain, 54) discovers her son Lucas (Béla Gábor Lenz, 26) in the bathroom with bloody hands. The next day, inspectors Janneke and Brix are called to the body of Cara Mauersberger (Viktoria Schreiber, 26). Her body is covered in knife wounds and the glass on the balcony door is broken. Leon Hamann (Franz Pätzold, born 1989), a property management employee, reports on an argument between Cara and her boyfriend. The investigators find out that Cara was a gamer who commented live on video games under the pseudonym “Chipmunk” and, above all, spoke out clearly against sexist depictions. Her aggressive follower “CancelChipmunk” is targeted by the investigation. But then a second murder happens…
Is it worth tuning in to “Crime Scene: Loss of Control”?
Yes. Simply because it is the penultimate case for Janneke and Brix, who always provided exciting crime entertainment. As Hessischer Rundfunk announced at the beginning of the week, it was over for the two of them after 19 cases. The exact broadcast date next year for her last film “Tatort: It’s so green when Frankfurt’s mountains bloom” is not yet known. The two have been investigating together since 2014.
Back to the “crime scene: loss of control”. It will be broadcast on Boxing Day, but there’s nothing Christmassy about it – which isn’t a bad thing in view of previous, usually not so well-successful attempts to incorporate the festival of love.
The crime thriller is exciting, well cast and credibly acted. First and foremost, the mother-son team Jeanette Hain and Béla Gábor Lenz should be mentioned here. In terms of content, it is questionable whether the undoubtedly highly emotional basic interpersonal conflict would actually make someone a murderer. Apart from that, the film is very worth seeing.