Ludik
To save a kidnapped family member, an enterprising furniture tycoon must use his secret diamond smuggling operation to transport guns across the border.
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When his brother-in-law is kidnapped, furniture tycoon Daan Ludik is forced to put his secret diamond smuggling operation to a new use: the gun trade.
The police begin looking into an abandoned Ludik truck in Zimbabwe. Daan takes aggressive steps to protect his family and searches for a missing Charl...
As the police sniff around his business, Daan makes a bold offer to a visitor from the other side of the border. Swys spirals back into old habits.
Daan moves to take over the gun trade and shake Brigadier Davies off his tail. Meanwhile, the other Ludik men also decide to take drastic action.
Swys finds himself in over his head during his quest for vengeance. Daan lays a breadcrumb trail for the police. Arend strikes back.
As the forces around him explode into conflict, Daan reaches out for more power — but will it come at the cost of those who he loves and trusts?
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3 years ago
NOTE: Contains some spoilers.
I'll start by saying, this series is substantially better, than many critics have suggested.
Pieter Vorster, is calmly chilling, as Danie Ludik, entrepreneur and criminal.Vorster has quite the background playing intimidating bad guys and he fits snugly, into this role. The back story helps to explain his characters ruthless ascension to both success and power. Ludik is never one to turn down a business opportunity, no matter how morally questionable, it might be.
The secondary cast of characters are well developed and interesting, too. From the largely overlooked wife and son, Ludik's dysfunctional brother in law, with whom he shares an odd co-dependency, through to the police officer out to catch him and an equally ruthless criminal, out to exploit him.
In short, this series is well acted and engrossing. Where it comes up a little short, is in the plot department. Character's simply do things that work for Ludik and against his adversary. In spite of what really amounts to a series of improbabilities and plot holes, that simply should not and most likely, would not, work out in the real world. The story wants Ludik to come out on top and so he does. At least in the first season.
That said, I still enjoyed the first season of Ludik and would be interested in seeing a second one. Hopefully with a plot line as well rounded as the characterisations.
In summary, engrossing, interesting, capably acted, let down somewhat by thin plot development. Nonetheless, certainly worth a look.