Rating: 
Summary: Fantastic!
Review: Well I didn't have the benefit of watching Run Lola Run before watching the Princess and the Warrior so I didn't have anything to compair it to since I've NEVER seen anything like it! I loved it! Seriously, it has to be one of the best movies I've seen and it's defenetly on my favourites list.I thought that all the characters were enjoyable and I didn't mind the subtitles one bit... actually I thought it added to it. I mean, listening to badly dubbed English is terrible! I hate it. Subtitles are defenetly the way to go.
But what I loved most about this movie was that is nothing like any films that you'll find in North America. North American films are always so predicatable but in the Princess and the Warrior I found myself hoping against hope that in the end everything would be ok. You have no idea what's going to happen next and I like that in a movie and that quality is way to rare in North American movies these days. So all I can really say that if you watch the Princess and the Warrior, you defenetly won't be disapointed. It's a good movie with interesting ideas and wonderful symbolism. It's worth a watch!
Rating: 
Summary: Worth a look for the curious
Review: Another movie from the director and star of the cult hit RUN LOLA RUN . Franka Portente plays Sissi, a nurse who is injured in a car accident but is saved by a criminal who, in a gruesome scene performs an emergency tracheotomy on her with a Swiss Army knife and a drinking straw. After her recovery Sissi sets out to find him and thank him for saving her life, but she discovers he doesn't want to know her. However little do they know their paths will cross again in a bank robbery.
Despite sounding interesting PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR is absorbing only in fits and starts and is mostly dull and overlong to boot. Director Tom Tykwer again makes full use of elaborate camerawork, but this only helps up to a certain point. That said, the movie is still worth a look, if only for curiosity's sake.
Rating: 
Summary: It's No Lola, But Who Cares?
Review: You have to hand it to director Tom Tykwer - he has come out with yet another wonderful film that once again brings him together with the lovely Franka Potente. The two of them together is magic. This time around, Franka plays Sissi, a nurse who works in a mental hospital. She is involved in a terrible accident, and her life is saved by the mysterious stranger Bodo. After he saves her life, he disappears, and suddenly Sissi becomes obsessed with tracking him down to thank him, and to ultimately become a part of his life. He of course wants nothing to do with her, but she is convinced that fate has something cooked up for the two of them. The one problem with this film, and the reason I only gave it 4 stars instead of 5, is that at times the movie seems long and a little slow. At more than 2 hours, that is expected. Some people didn't like it because they compared it to the other Tykwer/Potente film, "Run Lola Run" which was a shorter, faster-moving film. But this is one reason I like this one. No one wants to see the same thing twice. I think it's great Tykwer took a different direction with this film. "The Princess and the Warrior" is a more powerful, serious movie, that can stand to be viewed a couple of times. If you liked Lola, I think you will agree that this is a satisfying film.
Rating: 
Summary: If you liked Run Lola Run...
Review: If you liked Run Lola Run, that certainly doesn't mean you'll like this film. Tykwer accomplished quite the feat in Run Lola Run. He made a love story so fast-paced and exciting that he could tell it three times in an 80-minute film and keep it interesting from beginning to end. The Princess and the Warrior is a 135-minute film that tells one story, and it just doesn't work out as well. Obviously, there's nothing wrong with a movie being 135 minutes long, but let me put it in perspective. The average 2-hour movie has 1500 subtitles (Enemy of the State, 131 minutes, has 1762). The Princess and the Warrior has 738 subtitles, which includes non-dialogue subtitles. That's just how little is actually going on in the film -- it has less than half as much dialogue as most films. To quote an excellent review (from IMDb): "...the main problem is that slowness is the only means Tykwer has of imparting significance or dramatic weight to the scenes which he feels should be significant or dramatically weighty, and it just so happens that ALL scenes are scenes which he thinks should be significant or dramatically weighty. Characters pause before saying anything, the camera pauses before committing itself, stand-offs go on and on and on ... and while this is going on, NOTHING else is happening, unless it's Tykwer underlining the dialogue with a red pencil, or underlining the tension (which can't be felt) with cascading piano music." Don't get me wrong. The Princess and the Warrior is a good (sometimes disturbing) story, and I don't have much to add to what people before me have said about that. I just don't think I'll be sitting through it again any time soon.
Rating:
Summary: Thoughtful moviemaking
Review: This film first caught my eye when I saw that the film maker and star were the same as in "Run, Lola, Run", a movie I liked but which totally exhausted me with its frenetic pace. "Princess and the Warrior" was totally different, but equally well done, in my opinion. The leads, Franka Potente (Sissi) and Benno Furmann (Bodo), were very well-cast and played their roles of unhappy loners with wonderful reality. Twyker once again used the devices of fate and coincidence - destiny greatly impacting what happens in our lives and connections being everywhere. Repeated connections between the main characters soon become more than just coincidence. He also explores the ideas/themes of death, life, redemption, guilt, good, evil, and fear. In the course of the film, Sissi grows and changes as she tries to convince Bodo that fate threw them together for a reason. He rejects her thinking but his bitterness is only masking what is inside. Both characters face moral dilemmas as the film progresses and we see what happens from more than one viewpoint. The movie takes on the feel of a pebble thrown into a stream, with the widening circle encompassing characters who had never had any connection before but now are integral to the development of the story. The film is like a puzzle trying to get itself put together. Despite all the good things about this movie, I felt very detached from it and from the characters. They just did not seem that well-developed to me. Perhaps part of that is the language barrier. The ending is open to interpretation...something I always like rather than a "pat" conclusion.
Rating:
Summary: Absolutely great!
Review: Being a big fan of Franka, I was really excited to see this, it's really graphic in a areas of the film, It is a sub titled film and it's so awesome, A quick run down of the story, Franka almost dies and then is rescued by a man, she falls in love with him and tried to show him that he loves her too, but he's pretty stuborn but can't avoid Franks'a charm for long, all in all it's an absolutely wonderful film.
if you like foreign films, you better add this one to your collection.
Rating:
Summary: Great, great Movie!
Review: Ahoi, in Germany they are already stars and this movie gives the proof: Franka Potente and Benno Fürmann are as great as the plot and direction of the movie. The soundtrack is incredibly cool as well, which is produced by Tom Twyker, the best director of Germany. As his companion is Franka and a good friend of Benno, the trio is smashing! Incredible pictures and effects make you loving every second of the movie, additionbally all the extra features on DVD are amazing as well. So do yourself a favour and buy this strange lovestory: it is worth it, believe me! PS: in the movie Anatomy, a well-done psycho-thriller, Franka is acting with Benno Fürmann again! Also great movie!
Rating:
Summary: Perfection
Review: Run Lola Run was a big surprise for me, I had no idea what to expect when I bought it used at Hollywood Video store. Yet even with how much I loved Run Lola Run, the Princess and the Warrior even surpasses it, and in so many ways. For how often is it we see a movie involving young lovers that either A.) Doesn't have Freddy Prinze Jr. in it, B.) Isn't incredibly stupid, C.) Actually develops its characters and D.) Is far from routine? Never. We never see a movie like this, Tom Tywker chooses his characters so carefully and the actors fit their roles so perfectly that we feel one with them through every scene. This movie loves its characters and story too much to fall into a routine romance movie, instead we are left with a stunning view of fate, redemption, destiny and love in some of the most unlikely places. I have not seen a more beautiful romance movie my entire life.
Rating:
Summary: The Princess and the Warrior
Review: The Princess and the Warrior was intoxicating! Franka and Benno's performances were brilliant with talent. I fell in love with both of them. More passion and physical contact (just a little) between the two would have taken this movie to a higher level, but, none-the-less, I could watch this movie over and over again.
Rating:
Summary: brillian
Review: A few minutes after watching the movie i knew it had made it to my top five list. This is the best movie i have seen in a long time and the best one I will probably see for a long time. Some parts of the movie are hard to watch but that shouldn't turn anybody away from this movie. Fifteen minutes into it, the movie hooked me and I havn't been that emotionally/mentally or physically into a movie, ever. So as you can tell i think you should watch the movie and you should because it's a brilliant piece of work with great music, great cinematography and brilliant acting. enjoy.
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