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“Tatort” today from Switzerland: An overdose of boredom By: Rudolf Ogiermann Print Share Who is behind the cyber attack on defibrillators?Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler), Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher) and Noah Löwenherz (Aaron Arens, from right) are faced with a puzzle.A criticism.© SRF A cyber attack on implanted defibrillators with fatal consequences – that could have been a thriller that would give you heart palpitations.But after an exciting first few minutes, the new Zurich “crime scene” is only soporific. People who fall over and die in quick succession, seemingly for no reason - that's an exposition!This crime thriller from Switzerland has something of science fiction to it.An invisible power that decides between life and death and threatens to paralyze an entire country?Unfortunately, this thrill only lasts a few minutes from the start, then it becomes conventional.Very conventional.And this Zurich “crime scene” is dripping like an infusion. The dialogues are quite technical in “Ventric Fibrillation”, a crime thriller about implanted defibrillators whose wearers are now in mortal danger after a cyber attack.It's full of vocabulary like “source code,” “update,” “reset,” and “repository.”Here is the hectic pace in the clinics and a lot of “tatütata” on the streets, as the feverish search for the perpetrator (or perpetrator) and for the “digital key” that promises immediate healing from the sabotage. Greed for money in the healthcare system – that is the title of this film, but the authors Petra Ivanov and André Küttel give the book an overdose of (side) topics.Revenge, a brotherly quarrel, competition in the high-tech industry, and then also the dream of Reibach on the stock exchange - it's all there in this film, none of it seems to really work. As big as the ambition of the creators, the team that wants to stop the catastrophe with at least several thousand potential victims is small.Of course, the fact that investigators go beyond themselves is part of the DNA of every crime thriller. Here, the whirling of the two detectives (Carol Schuler and Anna Pieri Zuercher), one of whom also has a family history, and her brilliant helper (Aaron Arens) seems particularly ridiculous (director: Barbara Kulcsar). There is an original, powerful moment at the end, when an opera aria gets the computers working again, but that can no longer save the “ventricular fibrillation” patient.Brain death!