Product: Run, Lola, Run [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
Different masterpiece
There's something about some of those European action movies. Instead of creating intensity by adding a lot of shooting, car chases and people dying like flies, they make it by original filming, use of colors, use of great fitting music, making frequent unexpected and twisting turns and coming up with things that just haven't been done before.Run Lola Run or "Lola Rennt" is one of the best movies like that. Based on a dream the director had about a girl with bright red hair running, it is about just that. Lola (Franka Potente) is running for the life of her boyfriend and for their life together, to save everything she holds important in life.By playing the story three times, with three different outcomes and with several different short side-track stories, the movie makes you realize how much our lives and faiths are controlled by those little details that happen every day.If you want an alternative to the standard Hollywood action movie where the good guy has to kill several bad guys and the bad guys kill even more insignificant good guys, this definately is a movie for you.