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Run Lola Run

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Run Lola Run (1999)

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Reviews Counted:79

Fresh:73

Rotten:6

Average Rating:7.7/10

Consensus: More fun than a barrel of Jean-Paul Sartre, pic's energy riffs on an engaging love story and really human performances while offering a series of what-ifs and a blood-stirring soundtrack.

Rated: 15

Runtime: 81 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:22-10-1999

Synopsis: 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... 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 Potente, who also sings on the soundtrack, is mesmerizing as Lola. Winner of the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival; Best Film, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director at the German Film Awards; 1998 Bambi Award; and the Golden Space Needle Award for Best Film at the Seattle International Film Festival. [More]

Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri

Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Armin Rohde, Joachim Krol, Ludger Pistor, Suzanne Von Borsody, Sebastian Schipper

Director: Tom Tykwer

Director: Tom Tykwer
Screenwriter: Tom Tykwer
Producer: Stephan Arndt

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The writer-director of "Run Lola Run," Tom Tykwer, must have heard the phrase "moving pictures" at an impressionable age and taken it literally.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
Salon.com

For intellectuals, it's a thrilling exercise. For action- and visual-lovers, it's pure eye candy.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

For intellectuals, it's a thrilling exercise. For action- and visual-lovers, it's pure eye candy.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Run, Lola, Run is a film I could not take my eyes off of. It's too good a movie to be true. It has everything...

Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dak
Dak
culturevulture.net

A giant pinball game of a movie, Run Lola Run may be superficial and relatively meaningless, but it sure is great fun.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide

Run Lola Run is more than the sum of its gimmicks: It has a real worldview.

Full Review Source: Slate | comment Comment
01/01/00
David Edelstein
David Edelstein
Slate

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01/01/00
David N. Butterworth
David N. Butterworth
rec.arts.movies.reviews

I just know I didn't like this film.

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01/01/00
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

If an audience exists at all for Run Lola Run, it will likely be rabid video-game buffs with a passion for re-set.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
01/01/00
Ed Kelleher
Ed Kelleher
Film Journal International

Run Lola Run's power isn't in celebrating the giddy mixture of testosterone, drugs and new youth culture (i.e., electronica), but in taking the oldest of questions...

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01/01/00
Ernest Hardy
Ernest Hardy
Film.com

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01/01/00
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

Run Lola Run is the feverish, wish-fulfillment embodiment of everyone's unspoken dream...

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01/01/00
Gemma Files
Gemma Files
Film.com

it is a German film that is being hailed for its stylishness, even to the degree that it's worth seeing just for its look...

Full Review Source: Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies | comment Comment
01/01/00
Greg Dean Schmitz
Greg Dean Schmitz
Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies

Run Lola Run is loaded with cinematic effects that in the hands of someone less professional than Tykwer could have come across as the work of an NYU film student.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
01/01/00
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

...a sort of power-pop variation on the mystical time-bending Euro-art movies made by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
01/01/00
J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice

...it's the most fun I have had at any movie thus far in 1999.

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

It's a furiously kinetic display of pyrotechnics from the director Tom Tykwer, who fuses lightning-fast visual tricks, tirelessly shifting styles and the arbitrary possibilities of interactive storytelling...

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
01/01/00
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Sheer, demented entertainment.

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01/01/00
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

But it's just one more example of filmmaking style over substance — the brisk pace and gaudy visual style only mask the fact that there's not a whole lot of story here.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

We get fast and slow motion, crane shots, split screens, handheld cinematography, tracking shots, lateral wipes, jump cuts, candy coloring, MTV-style editing, whip pans, still photographs and rapid-fire montages. You name it.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
01/01/00
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
 
 
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