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06/24/06
Kontroll (2005)
81 %
Reviews Counted: 63 Fresh: 51 Rotten:12 Average Rating: 7/10
Consensus:
Kontroll is a smart thriller that's dark, gritty, and funny.
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Theatrical Release: 17-09-2004
Synopsis: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2004 Academy Awards, writer-director Nimrod Antal's debut is a thrilling, claustrophobic, wild ride through the subway system in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Sandor Csanyi stars as Bulcsu, the leader of a small crew that patrols the... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Sandor Csanyi, Zoltan Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch, Sandor Badar, Zsolt Nagy
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10/06/04
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Placing his lunatic ensemble of social misfits into a series of episodic story blocks with faultless timing, the director evocatively captures the look, mood, sounds and, most of all, the eccentric attitudes of this alien realm.
10/06/04
Top Critic
A movie made with the kind of vision and assurance you don't often get in a debut.
10/06/04
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Even though we spend the entire film underground, Hungary has never looked more buoyant.
03/01/07
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05/26/06
Though the film is crowd-pleasing enjoyable, it never fully brings in enough light to its underground setting to completely satisfy as a fully realized work.
11/03/05
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09/26/05
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09/26/05
This is supremely confident filmmaking for a newcomer, and should give Antal a one-way ticket to bigger things.
07/28/05
Antal proudly wears Tarantino influences, lingering in humorous conversations that race out on tangents, adding flavor to characters while also subtly developing themes.
07/22/05
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07/10/05
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Os personagens e o próprio conceito do filme são interessantes, mas o fraco roteiro acaba desperdiçando o potencial do projeto e a boa direção do estreante Antal.
07/09/05
You don't need a deep, dark forest to tell an unsettling fable about the struggle for freedom or the battles waged between the shadows and the things that glow.
07/01/05
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06/25/05
Top Critic
The constant gear-changing -- or tonal shifts -- may put some audience members off a bit. But it also has style to burn, and most of the cast is appealing, especially the brooding Csanyi, and Balla, whose sunny presence brightens up the dark proceedings.
06/25/05
Writer-director Nimrod Antal shifts from breakneck action to thoughtful romance ..., as he reveals a colorful and chaotic underground.
06/24/05
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