Product: Run, Lola, Run [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 4.0
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While watching Run Lola Run, I was thinking, this movie is either going to be terrible or outstanding, and nowhere in between. As it turns out, this is an outstanding film! It all came together for me in the end, where the real driving point of the film came through: The choices that we make, as small, meaningless and even subconscious as they may seem, can have a profound impact on the outcome of a situation and someone's life.Run Lola Run is divided into three versions of the same scenario, in which Lola must come up with 100,000 deutsche marks in order to save her boyfriend Manni from being killed. Oh, I forgot one thing, she has to get the money in twenty minutes! Each scenario has a different outcome because of slightly different changes in behavior and choices made. There are many subtle effects that these changes have from version to version as well, so pay attention!And in the end, we see that as impossible as it may seem, sometimes we hit that 1 in a million shot.I gave Run Lola Run 4 stars because I thought that the techno soundtrack got old after about a half hour. I think that the style of music definitely contributed to the fast paced nature of the film, but I thought more could have been done in terms of changing the music up here and there to give a more climactic effect at certain points. Thats really my only complaint.I'm glad that foreign filmmakers don't waste their time making movies like spider-man and dude wheres my car, and actually provide the world with intellectually and visually stimulating entertainment.