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Summary: Great Innovative Film
Review: Take one plot multiply three possible outcomes, and you have the wonderful innovative "Run Lola Run." Each version of the plot will have you on the edge of your seat as Lola runs through the city to save her criminal boyfriend.
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Summary: Got to see
Review: This is a great german movie. The main character, Lola, has to get 100,000.oo marks in 20 minutes for her boyfriend, Manni. She will do it one way and there will be a different endding. Three times she does it. Each time it starts over and she makes different choices. All the time she is running. It shows just one little choice you make will change the out come.
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Summary: Electric and Alive
Review: This is one of the most exciting films I have seen in a long, long time. It's a story that could only be told in this medium, and it uses the medium in the telling.Got that? I know it's become cliche to say that a film has broken new ground, but this one really has. It's so fun to watch you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat, palms sweaty, pulse racing. An amazing film. I loved it.
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Summary: A simple little film, but immensely enjoyable
Review: Manni has lost 100 000 deutschemarks that he owes to a diamond-smuggling gangster he is meeting in 20 minutes. The titular Lola is Manni's girlfriend, whom he calls for help when he realises the money is missing. Lola sets off on a frantic run through the streets of Berlin to try and extract the money from her father, a banker, before Manni gets desperate and holds up a grocery store for the funds. However, such a bare-bones description does not do justice to this hyperkinetic, immensely enjoyable film. Since Lola only has only 20 minutes, and the film is 80 minutes, it's not giving away the plot to say that the race to get the funds happens 3 times - the first 2 end in disaster, so she has to try, try again. I'll leave for you to discover how it turns out the third time. Between these action sequences are surprisingly effective hallucinatory dialogues between Lola and Manni, and you develop a sense of their relationship. This kind of gimmick has been used before (the most recent that I've seen being Groundhog Day), but this is the most enjoyable rendition I've seen. It's unclear if this is the same Lola or an alternate universe. The movie wisely steers clear of such metaphysical questions, and you accept the story's reality (much as you accept the reality of "The Matrix") because it is self-consistent and the actors are so convincing. It's not perfect - there are too many gimmicks in the title sequence that you almost get annoyed enough to look negatively at the rest of the film. However, there's something beautiful about Lola's run, much like watching an Olympic long-distance race. With bright red hair flapping in the breeze, arms pumping, you can't help but admire the energy she has, even while faintly disbelieving that a smoker could maintain such a pace for 20 minutes. It's good that it is enjoyable, because a good 1/3 of the movie is simply watching her run! The DVD has the typical extras, including an English commentary (by the director and the actress that played Lola) for the Region 1 encoded discs. There are some neat gems in the commenary, explaining things that would be familiar to German moviegoers (the identities of certain actors, for instance) but not to American ones. These are minutae, however, that you don't need to enjoy the film. It's a credit to the filmaker that the film is so universal that it can be enjoyed by any audience.
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Summary: You never know what's around the next corner!
Review: I saw this movie on a listmania list and noted the high ratings, so I bought it and I'm glad I did. Its unique format mixes media styles and throws in a few quirky twists just for kicks. It has all the strangeness and black humor common to Monty Python movies, but with a deadly serious and desperate quality that oddly enough works really well. I am usually pretty good at guessing what will happen next, but this flick threw me a few surprising curves. It is fast paced, so you will want to watch it again just to pick up what you may have missed the first time.
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Summary: Briliant and original
Review: This film is dificult to describe and do it justice. I found myself surprised to find it a refreshing story of love and comitment. Among the see of poor, sappy, shortsighted love stories this is an original, well paced impecibly directed, acted, etc. film that demonstrates the main characters devotion to the man she loves. However this devotion is not forced down the viewer's throat and most of the movie you believe you are watching a suspense drama when really you are watching diferent fates of a woman in love. A must have for anyone who loves good cinema, foreign films, love stories, suspense, or just a plain good flick.
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Summary: Still my favorite in my DVD collection
Review: This is absolutely my favorite DVD that I own. There has never been any movie made like this one -- totally unique and engaging. Tom Tykwer's film really sticks in your head, as you follow the lives of two main characters, and see how one little event in time can change the entire tragectory of their fates. This is an excellent, amazing, artistic gem that I want to get two of, just so that if I lose one, then I'll have a backup!
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Summary: A few more chances
Review: If life could be that way, we were all having a few chances to make things right.
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Summary: fantastic movie!!!!!!!1
Review: As soon as I heard about this movie I had to go out and rent it...this turned out to be a great decision. I watched it 3 times in one weekend and it is now one of the crowning jewels in my DVD collection.
Lola is an amazing chacter, who is very easy to empathize with. with one phone call at the beginning of the movie she is thrown into a dizzying situation which requires her to act entirely based on wit and instinct; she has 20 minutes to get 100,000 marks or her boyfriend, Manie, is a dead man.
the short time frame evicts raw emotion from Lola, and she goes thru every obsticle presented to her quickly with no time or patience for anything that gets in her way. the things we get to see are Lola's split second reactions, along with how small differences in her encounters (down to what words a woman uses to curse at Lola) affect not only her outcome, but the future of the other people in the encounter. the use of flash forward still frames gives you a glimpse into these character's changed lives, and does so effectively while not slowing down the movie. There are some scenes, not in the 20 minute timeline, that give an in depth look at the characters. My favorite of these is a scene with Lola and Manie where they have a "how do you know you love me" conversation that establishes the depth of their relationship without being over the top or weakening the characters. the movie is WONDERFUL.
Personal recomendation: watch the german version with subtitles, it's the best way to get a real feel for the characters and their reactions...the english dubbed version is nowhere near as effective and is even comical on occasions where what you're hearing and seeing just don't mesh.
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Summary: Go Lola Go!!!
Review: I should mention I love foreign movies and I don't mind subtitles. I thank my lucky stars for voiceovers on this visual masterpiece! I wish everyone would have to see this movie. Lola has to get money- and fast. And she happens to get more than one chance. Interesting to say the least. Beautiful to watch to say more. You will never watch another movie that time flies by so fast... which will make you not regret watching this even if you don't like it. BUT- I guarantee that anyone and their mother will love this film. And watch it more than once, because it's the little things. It is placement of scenery and the quick flash-forward slide shows. Intrigued? Buy it!!! I will say no more than that this movie deserves more than the five stars I was able to give it!
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