Product: Run, Lola, Run [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
Simple film that captures your attention
Run Lola run is a foreign film (German with English subtitles) that has much mainstream appeal. Without giving away too much the story revolves around Lola and her Boyfriend (Manni) in a bid to get 100,000 Marks in 20 minutes to save Manni from a rather unpleasant encounter with some thugs. The film moves at a fast pace as it replays the same 20 minutes over and over each showing how actions even trivial ones may have a profound effects on others. For example in one running Lola bumps into a woman and that triggers a series of events that causes the woman to lose her child to protective services which leads her to kidnap a baby. In another running she merely brushes past the woman and the woman ends up winning the lottery and lives happily ever after.Far from being bored with the replaying of the 20 minutes the move keeps your attention as you watch for the discrepancies between the runs. You find yourself asking was that element in the previous run? Why is that person walking there? Do they have a part in a future running? Just when you think you know everything about the runs the final run still has eye openers...The DVD has an English soundtrack that almost makes you feel that your not watching a foreign language film at all with the action and the sound track being so in sync.