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You get to decide what the protagonist does. Is Late Shift the future of cinema?

"Watch out, behind you! Everyone has wanted to shout that when, in a film, the hero fails to realise that danger is imminent. Now, finally, such a thing is actually possible. That is, Late Shift is the first feature-length cinema film in which we can give directions to the protagonist, the student Matt forced to cooperate by criminals. Not by shouting, but via an app.

Incidentally, on a preview, yours truly discovered that the consequences are hard to foresee. Do we help the in na...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

"Watch out, behind you! Everyone has wanted to shout that when, in a film, the hero fails to realise that danger is imminent. Now, finally, such a thing is actually possible. That is, Late Shift is the first feature-length cinema film in which we can give directions to the protagonist, the student Matt forced to cooperate by criminals. Not by shouting, but via an app.

Incidentally, on a preview, yours truly discovered that the consequences are hard to foresee. Do we help the in na...

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