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Summary: Heart-racing stuff
Review: This film from German director Twyker is a real treat. In it we follow Lola try to raise 100,000 marks for her boyfriend Manni to pay back some gangsters, the only catch being that she has to do this in only twenty minutes! And so the audience is treated to three different ways in which Lola gets the money.This film has several things going for it - a pulse-pounding techno soundtrack (with Franka Potente who plays Lola on vocals), stunning visuals and a fast story that you really get caught up in. All of this makes for a very flashy movie that will completely draw you in. However, what gives it that extra twist is the way in which the movie shows that the slightest thing can set the course of our future, demonstrated by snapshots of people that Lola meets in her travels through their lives. Plus there's some extraordinary acting from the two main characters that makes you really care for their plight. What's also different is the fact that the movie manages to be sad, funny and gripping. And film that can achieve that has to be recognised. There are also some highly interesting scenes in between each story in which the young couple discuss love, the future and other such topics. It's little wonder that this was so highly acclaimed, and is likely to become a cult classic in years to come.
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Summary: Run Lola! Run!!!!
Review: I just want to say that when I learned that my German class was going to watch Run Lola Run, I thought it would be another boring foreign movie. It was just the opposite. It left me on the edge of my seat the whole time and it has a triple bonus with three endings.I liked it so much that i went and got it immediately after I saw it. So go get it, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Hard to understand, but fascinating
Review: Probably one of the most popular film exports from Germany. It seems to relate to German expressionism or zumzing. Anyways, Lola is a young girl who gets a call from her desperate boyfriend who has clumsily lost a bag full of money worth several thousand deutch marks which he has to give to his gangster friend who never believes lies and is unforgiving. Lola then runs while trying to find a way to get the money. The movie plays in 3 repeats, with one of course being the best outcome. This format will confuse people probably. The movie though, isn't about what happens, but what it all means. As Lola runs, she bumps into various people. The movie, through a series of quick shots, show what happens to them. In one moment they are a crazy bum, the other a happily married man (makes you think doesn't it?). It's probably improbable that she could alter their lives so much, but the idea that her actions did is though provoking. The movie also has Lola and her boyfriend, in a flashback talking about their relationship, and what if they had never met, which Lola's boyfriend simply doesn't want to think about. I would have liked to know what the director Tom Tykwer had in mind with the question at the intro, "isn't it all the same question, and the same answer?" but then this is probably for the viewers to delve on personally.
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Summary: A non stop rollacoster
Review: lets get this straight this is a great movie
I first went to see this film at a special screening at our universities cinema and i did have some doubts about it before hand.
But it was the definate highlight of the night.
I won't say anything about the plot as 1. a lot has already been said by other reviewers.
2. I think its best to watch this film without any preconceptions about what is going to happen. The DVD itself is a good package and the extras are quite good particulaly the music video!! (especialy compared to the british edition of the film) However one word of warning Please Please do not watch this film in the dubbed american.
For goodness sake leave it in its original german format and read the subtitles. unless you want to be overcome with either laughter or extreme rage at how the dubbing has spoiled the original dialogue/monologues reading the subtitles really does not detract from the films brilliance
and in fact i belive that it enhances the experiance finally it can only be said BUY this film!!! IT IS GOOD
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Summary: Achtung!
Review: This movie left me on the edge of my seat and short of breath. Once just wasn't enough in the theater. I just had to see it again on the big screen. I never used to be into movies with subtitles. But the effect just isn't the same as it is in its native tongue. Just when I thought it's over, it just takes you on another turn and another and another!!! If you like fast paced, unpredictable action with a soundtrack that fits its movie like a glove, this one's for you.
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Summary: excellent movie!
Review: I just ordered this movie online. You know why? I LOVE IT! This movie combines almost hilarious pure luck with amazing risk-taking in a wonderful and thrilling film!
Taking place in a run-down Berlin slum, this movie is about a German drug dealer's incredibly loyal girlfriend, and her dash through the city to find some way to get 100,000 duetsch marks to her boyfriend's drug-dealing gangster boss. And if he doesn't get the money...
I HIGHLY recommend this to anyone, especially all you Germany lovers out there! (Hey, I'm only 12, but I still like it!) So, overall, my opinion is BUY IT RIGHT NOW!
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Summary: Stop Lola Stop
Review: The meat of the movie is given away by the title. Be prepared to watch Lola do an awful lot of running...and then some more. American movie critics seem to have a fetish for any movie foreign. Don't believe the hype...the plot is not ingenious nor are the direction and production groundbreaking. The basic idea (Lola has to come up with 100,000 bucks and get it to her distressed boyfriend Manni in 20 minutes or he will be killed) would have made for an exciting short film, but instead is stretched into an agonizing almost feature length film. The same story plays out three times, with three different endings. The premise is interesting (not original): how little, insignificant events drastically change the outcome of people's lives. But the film spends too little time exploring the idea and WAY too much time showing Lola running. There is NO character development. We don't care if Manni or Lola or anyone else dies or lives. The viewer has no vested emotional interest in the characters (unless you're sympathetic towards whining punk drug dealers who forget their drug money on subways). Cartoon animation, interesting polaroid segments, and a relentless techno soundtrack are added in a desperate attempt to keep the viewer interested in watching Lola run all over town.
I don't get how Lola changes many lives in this film. There are only a few polaroid sequences that are directly affected by her presence.
Lola gets one star for being in excellent cardiovascular shape, and another star for some interesting pillow talk sequences that give the movie its only interesting substance. Its worth a rent just to see what people have been talking about (Of course we have forgotten Lola and now love Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon...Although that is a way better film.)
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Summary: unique
Review: this is a great film. it is a unique look at three different directions a few small changes can take the story. i think it is very creative.
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Summary: excellent explanation of life
Review: Besides having great camera angles, and an original techno music it explains life and the concept of pre - destination, that we can't control opur lives. The time period is re runned three times, and in each time something trivial happens to Lola , in this case falling down, getting scared and jumping, and that trivial event changes her life, and the life of strangers (which very cleverly the director portrays as she runs) Well it is a movie definately worth seeing, hearing and thinking about.
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Summary: Overhyped and Tedious Film.
Review: This film is based on a single central idea which isn't particularly original in the first place. It tells a story from the point of view of several possible outcomes which provides an interesting way of telling a story though it is very reiterative. The film takes place in a typical mittel-Europa city - probably German - and concerns itself with a very slight plot in which there are multiple outcomes. I won't bore you with the detail but suffice to say that unless you like to look at the eponymous Lola (believe me she's no oil painting) running around the streets to get to talk to various people (hasn't she heard of the "telephone" or the "taxi"; perhaps the title of the film wouldn't work well "Phone Lola Phone" and "Ride Lola Ride" don't really have the same ring to them, I suppose) you'll get pretty bored with this one - especially as it's telling the same story with a different ending three or four times. As entertainment this is only slighly more interesting than watching paint dry. I'll give it one more star than the absolute minimum due to it's interesting effort to try and tell a story in an innovative manner but beyond that there is very little of value here. Give this one a miss despite what the other fawning 5* reviews here are telling you.
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