At some point in the police procedural “iHostage” the viewer is obliged to fight off the urge to look up the Dutch translation for “Yeah, and?” Let me save you the trouble. It’s “Ja, en?”

The film is a solid, fact-based thriller about a real-life hostage situation from a couple of years back.

It’s polished and professionally handled as it somewhat expertly takes us from inside an Amsterdam Apple store where a lone customer (Marcel Hensma) is being held by a somewhat inept creep in camo, to the police on the scene, then the command center where decisions are made and the “hostage negotiators” are on the (iPhone) with the perpetrator, and inside an Apple Store storage closet where an alert “Genius” store employee has hidden three customers with himself.

The stakes are high enough — with more customers hiding on an upper floor, the disgruntled hostage taker (Soufaine Moussouli) firing his semi-automatic weapon and claiming this bomb strapped to his chest will take out this building and make a mess of the entire city square where it’s located.

But director and co-writer Bobby Boermans’ film is impersonal and dry in the extreme. We get a barely a glimpse of anybody’s personal/interior life and the cops are by-the-book, ably juggling every contingency, with the chief (Louis Talpe) only losing his cool when an “influencer” posts info online that could get a lot of people killed.

The villain’s mysterious, a touch mad but dull. We meet a cocky hostage negotiator (Loes Haverkort) who brags that her perp “will crumble if we wear him down” (in Dutch with subtitles, or dubbed into English) and a crackerjack SWAT commando nicknamed “Double Zero” and we see another member of the DSI unit ripped away from his family for work.

And we spend a little time in that closet with fearful, even complaining customers and their “Genius” savior (Emmanuel Ohene Boafo), who can’t believe what ingrates some people are, given the circimstances.

There’s just enough suspense to tide the tale over, but opportunities for a deeper dive into characters, the aggravation of dealing with Apple (the company runs all its stores by remote control from New York), the hostage taker’s grievances, etc. are skipped-over or passed-by.

No characters really pop and there’s little room for pathos, humor or anything else.

Sometimes, being right on the money with “reality” isn’t enough to get a compelling movie out of a perilous situation. So what we’re left with is “Ja, en?”

Rating: TV-MA, violence, profanity

Cast: Soufiane Moussouli, Loes Haverkort, Marcel Hensma, Louis Talpe and Emmanuel Ohene Boafo

Credits: Directed by Bobby Boermans, scripted by Bobby Boermans and Simon DeWaal. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:42