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"Crime scene" from Switzerland today: an overdose of boredom
Published on September 28, 2025
"Crime scene" from Switzerland today: an overdose of boredom
By: Rudolf Ogiermann
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Who is behind the cyber attack on defibrillators?Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler), Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zugercher) and Noah Löwenherz (Aaron Arens, by right) are riddled with a riddle.A criticism.© SRF
A cyber attack on implanted defibrillators with fatal consequences - that could have been a thriller where you can get palpitations.But the new Zurich “crime scene” is only sleepy after exciting first minutes.
People who seem to fall and die for no reason in quick succession - that's an exposure!This crime thriller from Switzerland has something of science fiction.An invisible power that decides on life and death and threatens to paralyze an entire country?Unfortunately, this thrill takes only a few minutes from the beginning, then it will be conventional.Very conventional.And this Zurich “crime scene” drips like an infusion.
In the dialogues, it is quite technically too technically in “chamber fibrillation”, a crime thriller about implanted defibrillators, whose carriers now float in mortal danger after a cyber attack.It is teeming with vocabulary such as "source code", "update", "reset" and "repository".Here is the hustle and bustle in the clinics and a lot of “tatütata” on the streets, since the feverish search for the perpetrator (or the perpetrator) and the “digital key”, which promises immediate healing from the sabotage.
Greed for money in the healthcare system-that wants to be the heading of this film, but the authors Petra Ivanov and André Küttel give the book an overdose on (side) topics.Revenge, a brother-in-law, competition in the high-tech industry, then also the dream of the Reibach on the stock exchange-everything in this strip, none of it really wants to work.
As big as the ambition of the makers, the team, which the catastrophe wants to stop with several thousand potential victims.It is clear that investigating beyond himself belongs to the DNA of every thriller, here the vertebrae of the two commissioners (Carol Schuler and Anna Pieri Zuger), one of whom is also affected, and their ingenious helper (Aaron Arens) is particularly ridiculous (directed by Barbara Kulcsar).
There is still an original, strong moment at the end when an opera aria gets the computer up and running again, but that can no longer save the patient "chamber fibrillation".Brain death!