'10 Days of a Good Man' Netflix Movie. Review: Philip Marlowe... in Turkey

10 Days of a Good Man (Iyi Adamin 10 Günü) is a movie directed by Uluç Bayraktar starring Nejat Isler.

A Turkish thriller in the purest Hollywood style with an unmistakable Humphrey Bogart touch… Turkish style.

A kind of Philip Marlowe parody (no secret) that is entertaining and refreshing. But is it good and original? Not at all, but it is gratifying to meet the character again and bring him back to these times that are so different to those days.

Movie Review

10 Días de un Buen Hombre — 10 Days of a Good Man (2023)

It’s neither great nor will it go down in history with all its conscious parodying of an obviously televisual format with regard to the photographic and plot aspects. However, it is entertaining in a familiar way and has a very eighties touch in terms of script structure, scene conception and general planning.

A very classic touch.

Mind you, it is a Turkish film, but not in terms of the “sentimental” cinema we are so used to. 10 Days of a Good Man is more of a serial killer thriller than a film more typical of the Turkish industry, a bit more Hollywood and less Istanbul (or so it attempts to be, but it doesn’t always succeed, let’s be honest).

At all times, it tries to reference itself to classic cinema, almost becoming a self-parody in the end… entertaining, yes, but also unfunny and without managing to exceed its own proposition: in the first five minutes we already know the “meta-referential” game… and then what? Then it doesn’t know how to play that “something more” that could have made this film something much more special that, undoubtedly, it is not.

Our Opinion

Playful, praiseworthy, but somewhat weakly made that gets no further than the “fun” approach and that fails to establish itself authentically as a film with its own stamp and truth.