Run Lola Run

Pros: Interesting concept in film and time, all happening in the space of twenty minutes.
Cons: Gets a bit repetitive. Really cheap animation.

Or sometimes it does.

Case in point, this interesting little independent film about a slightly anarchistic teen named Lola (Franka Potente). With her tomato colored hair, green checked pants, and tank top baring some of her tatoos, Lola is a...

Pros: Lola Running, the blend of smart imagery, flash forwards and flash backs, intricate tapestry
Cons: You have to pay close attention or you really do think it is "audience choice"

Want to see a film that does it all, in German? This very interesting film (recommended by fellow reviewers some time ago) by Tom Tykwer, on a limited budget combines artistic film making, creative editing and sequencing, and some interesting...

Pros: Franka Potente, Concept, Techno music, Acting, German
Cons: Lack of respect for principals of quantum theory

When tigger500 invited me to his Write-Off, the first one that he’s ever hosted, I knew that I had to get right on top of things. Even though the reviews aren’t due until November 17, I went to West Coast Video on November 1. I wanted to pick up...

Pros: Great cast, music, direction, everything
Cons: Some parts may seem a tad bit repetitive

My girlfriend is so great. Of all my movie-watching buddies, she is the only one who didn't sneer and snort at the idea of watching a movie with subtitles. They said "I had enough of that junk in French class in high school". Snobs. I have...

Pros: interesting concept · suspenseful · imaginative cinematography · blazing soundtrack
Cons: happy ending · (lack of) acting

… I feel now | The future in the instant. • Macbeth I.v.56-7

Every once upon a silver screen, a film comes along and knocks your socks off. Three viewing of Run Lola Run (RLR) left my sock drawer in such disarray that I...

Pros: Incredibly fun to watch, very well made
Cons: A little overwhelming, a lot to take in for such a short film

A hyperkinetic marvel, Run Lola Run attempts to prove the old adage about a butterfly flapping it's wings in Central Park causing a rainstorm in Japan. By repeating the same event, Lola running around to find her boyfriend Mannie 100,000 marks, time and...

Pros: Direction, Script, Look, Locations, Editing, Music, & Cast, notably Potente.
Cons: The Last Ending of Final Run is a Bit Weak.

Of the new directors to emerge from the post-German New Wave of the 1970s and into the late 1990s, Tom Tykwer is one of the new voices in German cinema. After making two short films in 1990 and 1992, Tykwer released Die Todliche Maria ...

Pros: too many to list here
Cons: not a one

What would you do if your boyfriend called you saying he lost the $100,000 he was supposed to deliver, and if he didn’t come up with the money in 20 minutes, some thugs would kill him? What would you do? You’d Run Lola Run!

The...

Pros: High-paced adrenaline rush with great variety of film techniques
Cons: Apparently few viewers bother to understand what the film is about

Run Lola Run was both written and directed by Tom Tykwer. It is an innovative and dynamic film generally reminiscent of music videos in its stylistic approach. After reading ten or so reviews of Run Lola Run written by some of the top ...

Pros: Approachable, energetic foreign film. Engaging. Perfectly matched soundtrack.
Cons: A tad outlandish in parts, but forgivably so.

"You're NEVER late!"

Manni is crawling out of his skin. Tearing at his hair in anguish, he replays the turn of events that brought him to this point - standing in a phone booth roughly twenty minutes away from...

Pros: A different genre of film worth checking out.
Cons: Jumps around from scene to scene.

Not a huge fan of foreign films, I was a bit hesitant when everyone around me would tell me that I simply had to see the German film "Run Lola Run." Knowing going into it that the dialogue within the film was all in German with English subtitles, I ...

Pros: upbeat, stylish, exciting
Cons: many unanswered questions

If you ever wanted to see a movie that lives up to its title, "Run Lola Run" is as direct and straight-forwarded as you could expect. It's about a girl named Lola who gets a random phone call from her boyfriend informing her that he has 20 minutes left ...

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Run Lola Run was one of those movies that I kept catching midway through the movie. I knew it was about a woman that had to run to save her boyfriend, but I didn’t know much beyond that. Finally, we decided to rent it. The story is about Lola, ...

Pros: Unique editing style, and very effective.
Cons: None really

The Soup
I have taken two years of German, and I can barley remember anything. To this day all I can tell you is, “Herr Ober, in meiner Suppe ist eine Briefkasten.” Translation: Waiter there is a mailbox in my soup.
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Pros: Fierce performance from Franke Potente, matching the energy of the whole effort.
Cons: A strange opening few minutes.

I see a couple hundred movies a year, but somehow, I had managed to miss RUN LOLA RUN until the first week in August, 2005. YEARS after the film had come out, and years after imitators had their shots at ruining the style (like imitators of PULP FICTION ...