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Run Lola Run on DVD (1998)

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Average rating: 67%
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Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Joachim Krol, Nina Petri, Ludger Pistor, Armin Rohde, Sebastian Schipper, Suzanne Von Borsody
Director: Tom Tykwer
Studio: SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 77 mins
Certificate: 15
Collections: 100 Feisty Females
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Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema
Languages: German
Dubbed: English
Subtitles: English
Released: 10/04/2000
Also Available on: Also Available on: BLU-RAY

Brief synopsis of Run Lola Run

Set against the gritty urban scenescape of Berlin and a pounding techno soundtrack, RUN LOLA RUN is a frenetic, inventive existential thriller that explores the life-altering impact of seemingly inconsequential actions. Beautiful, hip, and young, poor Lola has but 20 minutes to locate a missing bag containing 100,000 Deutsche marks or come up with the money some other way--if she can't, gangsters are going to kill her boyfriend. A pulse-raising race against time, the film employs a startling array of innovative techniques to present three separate scenarios, all departing from a single split-second decision Lola makes. Franka Patente, who also sings on the soundtrack, is mesmerizing as Lola.

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Rating of 4 stars out of 5 Radio Times

In this breathtaking crime drama, director Tom Tykwer keeps his audience on a knife edge as teenager Lola (Franka Potente) tries to raise the money that will save her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) from a homicidal gangster. Tykwer pushes cinema to superhuman limits, presenting three scenarios and conclusions, and utilising a dazzling array of cinematic devices — jump cuts and replays, colour turning to monochrome, action sped to a blur — as Lola takes part in a desperate race against time. This is an awesome achievement from one of Germany's most innovative film-makers.

Rating of 3 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

Exhilarating, speedy thriller which provides three alternative versions of events, depending on tiny incidents which precipitate different consequences; it's a witty demonstration of the vagaries of cause and effect and the unpredictability of life.

New York Times

"...A furiously kinetic display of pyrotechnics....Mr. Twyker's visual virtuosity revels in the possibilities here..."

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Rated - 4 starsLola

A customer from hartlepool , 07/03/2004

great film, I loved it and I can't speak German.

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Rated - 5 starsREAD ME ONLY!!!!

A customer from Glasgow , 22/10/2004

Just ignore the bad reviews. If you didn't enjoy this film then you simply didn't get it, and it's not that hard to get. It doesn't matter it's that it's German or if some people found her running everywhere pointless (some reviews reccomended taking the bus. If you have a 20 minute time limit on a life or death situation who really would spend it waiting for the number 36 bus????) this basically is a very clever and enjoyable film. The director should be proud and I strongly recomend this picture. Most films aren't prepared to take risks anymore, but in saying that not all risks come off as well as Lola.

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Rated - 5 starsUnique.

A customer from England , 30/03/2004

Run Lola Run is based on a simple idea - three repetitions of the same story with a different outcome each time. Lola's boyfriend has been robbed of the money he owes a big time criminal, and now Lola has to run to obtain a large sum of money and deliver it to her boyfriend before he commits an armed robbery to obtain the money. Sounds miserable? Don't believe it - it's a colourful, stylish film.

If anyone shares my trepidation about what might be found in a 15-rated film, don't worry - I'm sure it would have been a PG but for the swearing.

  16 out of 19 people found this review helpful
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Rated - 4 stars20 minutes of mayhem

McClennan from St Helens , 31/01/2005

I liked this a lot. Franke Potente in the lead role and I can see why she got a couple of Hollywood films after this but the real star of the show is the direction which is superb. Based on a twenty minute period in the main characters' lives it's stretched out for considerably longer with repetitive shots done differently almost each time. There are small twists and turns that take you in a direction you weren't expecting as well as ones that are ludicrous, but they work. The film is played with a real edge of the seat feel to it and doesn't stray away from the central love story too much. The music wasn't great but it played the film perfectly and I think anyone who's enjoyed the likes of Trainspotting or Human Traffic would enjoy this film.

  10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
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Rated - 3 starsWhy??

A customer from London , 22/11/2007

I have seen this movie before and really enjoyed it. I hired it to show one of my friends and was really annoyed when people were talking in English accents. WHY, WHY, WHY? It is a German film and therefore the cast should be speaking German. The terrible dubbing and strange accents do nothing for the film and it just confuses the plots because it is quite obviously not based in an English city. If you watch it get the original version, it's much better!!!

  3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
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Rated - 5 starsLow budget, big fun.......

A customer from Kenley, England , 28/01/2006

Although this movie was probably made for less money than it costs to put on Tom Cruise's makeup, it's great fun. Don't be put off by the first 10 minutes, which are the worst part of the film, but allow yourself to enjoy the rest.

Highlights - a great soundtrack, which matches the mode of the film perfectly - fantastic originality with flashback (forward?) scenes - several real shocks - and one or two great comedy moments. Plus, although it's short (73 min), even if you like it or hate it, you will find yourself thinking about it for the next few days, and especially about the final frame.

  7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
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