Good German movies are hard to find. Especially if they rely too heavily on big names with limited acting capabilities like Til Schweiger. Fortunately, this movie is an exception to both. Excellent camera work, a well-designed script throwing in a punchline here and there but not overdoing it, and a cast which doesn't favour anyone over the other, all add up to one of the best German movies I have seen lately.
The female characters are a little weak, with a former and a beginning love story left unexplored, and some of the others a bit entangled in cliché, but the emotions conveyed are genuine and the storyline has enough surprises left in stock to make for an entertaining experience.
If you plan to see any German movie this year, this should be it.
Rating: 10/12 (4 stars)
The female characters are a little weak, with a former and a beginning love story left unexplored, and some of the others a bit entangled in cliché, but the emotions conveyed are genuine and the storyline has enough surprises left in stock to make for an entertaining experience.
If you plan to see any German movie this year, this should be it.
Rating: 10/12 (4 stars)