Rating: Summary: Three times! Review: Just as everyone has said, Manni screwed up, and Lola has 20 minutes to save her love's life by acquiring 100,000 marks and paying of the mob boss before ol' Manni gets a serious hurtin'!This movie is an artsy-fartsy type of flic that would only be appreciated by the artsy-fartsy type of viewer. Or by someone that is extremely tired of watching the same ol' american shoot them up action flics. There is about 30 minutes of the same footage used over and over again as it takes Lola 3 times to get her act straight and get the dough to loverboy. Acting is so-so, the lines do not seem to roll, seems kinda choppy, if you will. Dubbed, of course. If you do not mind seeing a german chic with orange hair running most of the movie, then check it out. But, if you are dissapointed after viewing the show....don't get mad at me....because I told you so as I wave my finger at you. Watch The Corndog Man instead!
Rating: Summary: Stylish, but derivative plot Review: Run Lola Run has achieved a sort of cult status since its arrival from Germany, and in its style alone, it's easy to see why: this is one fast-paced, breakneck-speed story, with a likeable, punk heroine (Franka Potente), very cool animation, and a good soundtrack. On all of those levels, Run Lola Run works well. However, the story is another matter. I've read several reviews praising the different nuances, stylistically and story-wise, which change as the story runs each time. What I found was a crime-story version of the film Groundhog Day, or a more stylish version of an X-Files episode from several years ago titled `Monday', in which Mulder experienced the same botched bank robbery several times. Run Lola Run definitely wins on its style points, but on those points alone.
Rating: Summary: Fast-Paced Greatness from Deutschland Review: OK kids, if you haven't heard of this film, you must have been either living under a rock or deployed to some forsaken land. Run Lola Run aka Lola Rennt is in three parts, each following a similar trend, but with different culminations. The lead role, Lola, spends the film trying to get money owed to the German mob to her boyfriend, but she runs (literally) into problems the whole way. This is why the film is in three parts - each part is a "do-over" of the previous part. If only real life was like this! As a neat bonus, whenever she passes folks up on the street, small glimpses into their future are shown through Polaroid snapshots. Run Lola Run is certainly one of the better films out of Germany lately. The included music video is pretty cool as well. Don't pass it up.
Rating: Summary: Don't Get the Canadian DVD Review: Its a great movie but get the US DVD. I just bougth the Canadian Version don't make the same mistake The Canadian Version only has the Full Screen Version, No Dolby5.1 only 2 channel, No english dubbing - not an issue for me, No Commentary. It does have one more music video "Wish" and French Dubbing but not even french subtitles. Identify it by its different Cover
Rating: Summary: Interesting Movie Review: This was a weird movie. It kept me on my toes at every point of the movie. There was a lot of action; the musical score went great with the theme of the movie. Never did any one of us who saw the movie know what was going to happen next. It maintained a great element of surprise. The ending, no I am not going to give it away, carries a lot of symbolical, philosophical, and anthropological meaning as well. What was also interesting about this movie is that it had an implicit sense of comedy. All of us who watched it could not stop laughing.
Rating: Summary: Lola Läuft - The movie ran into my heart. Review: Few foreign movies that I have seen even come close to a movie such as this masterpiece. Das Boot-Director's Cut was my fave until now. I can't believe that I found the DVD in our video rental store. The DVD is perfect for my wife and me, as I can speak and understand German, while my wife, being an American, does not. I got to watch it in German and then again in English. I must say the German language version sounds much better, but it's still quite interesting in English. I loved how they portrayed a woman (Lola) as a sort of "Sorcerer" type person who could change events until they worked out for her. Awesome film... I would have given the Lola Läuft a higher than 5 star Rating, but...
Rating: Summary: What if! Review: This IS your bag: If you like action, fun, stunts, thrill If you want to see something completely unique If you are not afraid of timeblends If you like fabulous music from some of the hippest german people (that make look the far too streamlined usual scores look veeeery old) If you like cartoons If you like to rather sit and hold than to stop the vcr and go to toilet If you like to experience sheer SPEED So, what are you waiting for? Run to get it!
One funny sidenote: The movie's rating was for 12 years in germany. Americans are really funny with their prudery. It seems that the americans are as afraid of sex as the germans are of violence.
Rating: Summary: Running In German Review: From all the other reviews, you'll see this is an exiting slice of Euro Cinema. It's clever, funny and moving, and it's use of photographs to show the future of various minor characters is like nothing I've seen before. What I would recommend though is you watch it with the subtitles activated rather than listen to the terrible english dubbing. The voice actors are particularly wooden and you lose something of the characters' appeal in listening to them. I know subtitles can be a pain but it's worth the effort to hear Lola's real voice, when she isn't running that is!
Rating: Summary: z....z....z....z Review: It made me dizzy, I fell asleep
Rating: Summary: Run to see Lola Review: The most frenetic and energized movie since "Pulp Fiction." Tom Tykwer's German import features a potent Franka Potente as Lola, a young woman with 20 minutes to come up with big money to save her boyfriend's life. The film, a technical marvel, spins this tale in real-time three times over, with slight plot alterations resulting in drastically different conclusions each time. "Run Lola Run" may signal the future of renegade action cinema, as shocking and unmissable as Lola's fire-red hair.
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