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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.
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
Reviews for Run Lola Run
A low-budget no-brainer, Run Lola Run is a lot more fun than Speed, a big-budget no-brainer...
An exuberant and creative film game that amps things up for a run of nonstop action that tantalizes the senses and bombards the mind with an adrenaline rush of stimuli.
Do you get sucked in by movies that ignore the rules and make new ones? Then don't miss it.
Here, he captures all our best qualities -- energy, resourcefulness, independence -- and he does so in the shared visual vernacular of Xers: music videos, video games, and television.
In fact, it turns out, not surprisingly, that it is boring to watch someone run for 87 minutes...
Interspersed with Lola's zigzag swiftness are moments when the action shifts into trancelike tableaux.
...the movie is a departure from the norm that will have audiences chattering well into the night...
Telling the plot three times, with cunning variations, Tykwer mixes pixilated photos, split screens, cartooning, the works.
Every tick of the 81 minutes in Run Lola Run is pounding with kinetic energy and double-espresso adrenaline, like a marathon inside a rave inside a fusion reactor.
Though lacking the solidity of a full feature drama, this colorfully nerve-wracking art film is an interesting study in chance
Run Lola Run is a high-octane pulse-pounder driven by style, speed, deviously clever flourishes, and a driving techno-beat--a film that moves so fast it almost breaks free of its limited orbit.
Reads like a parallel universe joke, but is executed like a music video
Lola, played with unbounded energy in an utterly captivating performance by Franka Potente, does exactly that, run almost the entire movie.
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