Product: Run, Lola, Run [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
A frenetically paced 20 minutes
Tom Tykwer's creative, avant-garde flick "Run Lola Run" is a hectic action fantasy filmed with some unusual cinematography in the streets of Berlin. Using a formula as seen in Kurosawa's classic "Rashomon" the story postulates three possible plot scenarios, aided by some clever cartoon segments.The crux of the story involves Lola played by Franka Potente from "The Bourne Identity" and her boyfriend Manni played by Moritz Bleibtreu. Manni, a low level criminal and certainly not the sharpest knife in the draw, is acting as a courier for 100,000 deutsch marks the proceeds from a deal. Due to a foul up in plans he witlessly leaves the funds he is to deliver to a dangerous gangster on a subway where they are scooped up by a bum. He desperately calls up Lola telling her that they must come up with the 100,000 within 20 minutes or he's dead meat.Lola implores him to wait, assuring him that she'll get the money. However Manni has rashly threatened to rob a large nearby supermarket to procure the money.The plot continues as we see Potente running wildly through Berlin attempting to get the dough. Three separate possible scenarios play out as she rushes to her dad, who is a bank manager, to try and get the funds. Fate has a large part in determining how each possibility will turn out.