Product: Run, Lola, Run [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 4.0
I had to watch it twice!
The movie is about the story of Lola(Franka Potente) who promised her boyfriend Manni (Maritz Bleibtreu) that she would find him 10000 DMs in 20 minutes, and if she failed to appear he would go rob the supermarket. Its not the greatest storyline in the world and the characters in the movie have the amazing capacity to do the most stupid, impulsive things without thinking first, but I must say that I enjoyed the whole movie from start to end and watched it twice, first by myself then with my husband. The comic quality of this movie is dry but good, and its pace is fast which means that you hardly have time to think or predict what the character is going to do next before they do it. The soundtrack is the style of authentic German trance-techno music... which pleased my husband a great deal because he's a German trance-techno fan. This is definitely no quiet, emotional drama... the characters are brash and act and say whatever they want. If you watch the DVD version you can choose to watch the movie in its original German version with English subtitles, or you can choose to watch it in an English-dubbed version. My personal preference is the original German version with English subtitles. The other English-dubbed version I find really irritating because they don't even dub it word for word... original swear-words in German are substituted by tame and ridiculously stupid English words which many of us don't even use in our daily life for swearing or expressing anger. Not only that, the dubbing is unemotional (sounds like the English-dubbers they use to dub Japanese cartoons into English) and it sounds plastic and lacks the real depth of feeling that the original German version contains.