“Crime Scene: Borowski and the Great Rage”
How will the new Kiel thriller be?
The new case from Kiel takes investigator Klaus Borowski (Axel Milberg) heavily.
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Soon it will be over with Axel Milberg at the “crime scene”. Is it worth turning on for the first time after the announcement of the farewell in two years?
In 2025, Axel Milberg (66) will finally be over at the “crime scene”. The actor announced this decision in mid-March. Until then, the big Borowski farewell tour will follow, which will culminate in autumn 2023 with Milberg’s 20th anniversary as a “crime scene” commissioner. First, however, his latest case “Borowski and the Great Rage” will be broadcast on May 7, 2023 at 8:15 p.m. on the first. The Kiel investigator, together with his colleague Mila Sahin (Almila Bagriacik, 32), not only goes to his psychological but also to his physical limits.
That’s what “Tatort: Borowski and the Great Rage” is about
A passer-by is pushed in front of a moving truck on the Kiel Fjord: an outbreak of violence out of nowhere. Inspector Borowski (Milberg) asks around at a nearby vocational school. A little later, the chief inspector ends up in the intensive care unit with a serious head injury. Mila Sahin (Bagriacik) is of great concern. Why wasn’t she with him when her colleague needed her? She suspects a connection between the senseless act and the attack on Borowski.
And then there are these strange calls that reach the chief inspector on his sickbed: A girl named Finja (Jil) claims to have been kidnapped by her sister Celina (Caroline Cousin, *2000). Celina Lübbert is one of the girls Borowski interrogated at the vocational school. When Mila Sahin finds Celina’s grandmother stabbed shortly afterwards, the question arises: How dangerous is the girl? Is Celina also responsible for the attack on Borowski? Will she harm her little sister Finja? While Borowski investigates from the hospital bed and tries to gain Celina’s trust, Mila searches for the girls: a race against time.
Is it worth turning on?
Yes, because Axel Milberg as Klaus Borowski is just incredibly good. The harmony with his well-rehearsed team is palpable every second. But what you have to admit: “Borowski and the Great Anger” is certainly not the strongest case from Kiel in recent years. The plot ripples along too boringly. The announced “race against time” also has a hard time getting going and hardly manages to generate any real excitement. The bar is simply extremely high for Milberg crime fiction and his latest case can’t always live up to this claim.
Often it just stays with the good idea. As did Milberg’s health problems after his fall. Somehow the screenwriters couldn’t really decide whether they were going to stage a Borowski with a severe head injury or an actually healthy investigator who, for tactical reasons, is investigating from the sickbed. In the end, the whole story remains a bit half-baked. Nevertheless, what remains in the end is a very solid Sunday evening crime thriller, which, however, lives above all from its strong protagonists and less from a great plot.