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Popular singer Emel (Emel Sayin) is pretty much an angel, not only has
she a voice that captivates everyone's heart, she also spends her spare
time visiting orphanages and the like. And she is very much in love with
her husband Bekir and would give her right arm for him. And that's where
the problems start, because Bekir nmot only has an affair with another
woman, he also has a dark past, in which he hooked up with gangsters and
shot his best friend Davut (Cüneyt Arkin), whom he then left to die. But
Davut didn't die but spent some years in prison, and now that he's out he
wants his revenge on Bekir ... Bekir sends his men after Davut to kill
him, but to no avail, Bekir's men all end up dead, and no matter how well
he is guarded, it seems Davut always finds a way to get to him - but Davut
doesn't want to kill Bekir yet, that would be too easy, he wants him to
suffer first, in return for all the years he has suffered in prison. When
Emel learns about Davut, she decides to take matters into her own hands,
and she visits him in his hotel room and manages to shoot him, and it's
nothing short of a miracle that he doesn't die. After the incidence, Emel
gives herself up to the police ... while the first thing her husband Bekir
does is to take his girlfriend and skip the country. Davut doesn't press
charges against Emel, which means she is sent to prison for no more than 1
1/2 years, but when she's out again, he takes her captive, treats her like
dirt and pretty much forces her into submission. For the longest time,
Emel tries to escape, but eventually love blossoms between the two of them
and they become a couple ... which doesn't mean Emel doesn't seize the
first opportunity to make an escape though. However, once away she doesn't
sue Davut, because her love was at least partly genuine. With Emel gone,
Davut becomes an alcoholic, a shadow of his own self - in short a man who
poses no more threat to Bekir - but Bekir wants to make a hundred percent
sure and pays a visit to Davut to shoot him dead ... but to have his
revenge on not only Bekir but also his fate and the world, Davut brutally
massacres Bekir and his men, even if that gets him right back to prison
... Starting out as a very violent revenge epic, this film
eventually falls flat on its face when Davut makes Emel his captive,
mainly because all the tension that was built up previously all of a
sudden adds up to naught, and as a director, Cüneyt Arkin does not manage
to fill the captive-narrative up with enough suspense to keep the viewer
on the edge of his seat. Also, the ending seems a bit forced upon the
story rather than being the result of proper storytelling. That all
said, the film has a few scenes of raw power that one can only expect from
cheap action flicks like this one, it just fails to deliver the blow seems
to promise.
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