There's little point bothering with Mata Hari, unless you're looking to sedate an relative and lack Rohypnol. There are also some mini-games, which aren't worth commenting on (especially as you can skip them). The lead character is boring, as are all the others, and the voice acting is delivered with little-to-no enthusiasm. Locations, though pleasant to look at, have barely anything to interact with, and when you do have to perform some kind of puzzle-solving task, it's usually drab and uninteresting.
There's nothing woeful about the game, just that it lacks any quality. It's a shame, as the backdrops are nicely drawn, the whole Edwardian spying idea has great potential, but the execution is uninspired. The most soul-destroying thing about the game is that it's been designed by Hal Barwood and Noah Falstein, both instrumental in the creation of the seminal Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, which is just leagues ahead of this turgid offering. Things do get better when you leave the atrocious B first scene and actually start doing I more than talking about the weather B with cardboard characters. In spite of the distance and nine hour time difference, thanks to technology, the filmmakers were able to take advantage of the best each side of the world has to offer.After finishing writing the first draft of this review, I decided to check around the Internet to see if I'd missed anything glaringly obvious that might change the way I looked at Mata Hari.Į Nothing did, but I did discover one observant forum poster who'd declared I the intro sequence to be "devastatingly dull." Deciding I couldn't put it any I better myself, I rewrote the intro to I include this succinct description. The voice over with renowned Dutch actress, Thekla Reuten, was recorded in Amsterdam while Susan Wolf and editor, Bob Sarles, directed from a studio in CA. Interviews were shot in Paris, the Netherlands, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. Shooting in the Netherlands provided distinct advantages regarding authenticity and access to original materials. The film, an international co-production between Susan Wolf in California and Machiel Amorison in Amsterdam, was primarily shot in the Netherlands where Mata Hari was born and lived much of her life. In the end she paid dearly, with her life.” “Mata Hari was seeking sexual freedom, artistic expression and the right to control her own life – things that women today still strive to attain.
“With the #Me Too wave that has swept the country, we have to ask what has changed in the 100 years since Mata Hari? The answer is not nearly as much as we would hope,” said Susan Wolf, Director. Newly discovered letters give genuine voice to her struggles as an abused wife and shed new light on her role as a mother. “Mata Hari – The Naked Spy” celebrates the power we have to re-invent our own lives.įilmmakers Machiel Amorison and Susan Wolf set out to create a film that would unravel the complex story of Mata Hari, explore what shaped her character and acknowledge Mata Hari’s creativity, courage and intelligence. “Mata Hari was the most famous dancer in Europe for seven years” The idea for the film came from Amorison. For years he had been fascinated by the person Mata Hari, who was born in Leeuwarden in 1876 as Margaretha Zelle. Amorison’s great-great-grandmother was in Mata Hari’s class, he tells Haarlem105. “The stories had circulated in the family for years. As a child, Mata Hari was shown to be notable for her different clothing and extraordinarily charismatic behavior. So she was a special personality from the start. The American-Dutch documentary / feature film ‘Mata Hari, The Naked Spy’, made by the Haarlem filmmaker Machiel Amorison and the American filmmaker Susan Wolf, premiered online. The intention was that the film would be shown in various Dutch cinemas around this time, but the corona pandemic prevented that. Via the internet people can now watch the life story of the Dutch dancer and prostitute, who was shot in France in 1917 because the French suspected her of espionage during the First World War. Deep, with a really interesting storyline, minigames and various locations, it offers a new way to understand point and click adventures. Issue174, Jan 2009Mata Hari is a great game in the point and click genre. “She is still an example for many women today” Haarlem 105.nl, Nov. The game itself is not that bad but we were hoping for something special.
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