Please don't spend money on this.

best movie i've ever seen.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This turned out to be a surprisingly good thriller; minimalistic and quick paced, and visually well done. Set in a near-future world devastated by a 10 °C rise in temperatures and blinding sunlight, everything looks very much the part of the post-apocalyptic setting. Good cast, too - Hannah Herzsprung and Stipe Erceg, both stellar in The Baader Meinhof Complex, also do a good job with the sparse dialog here as the desperate protagonists searching for the last of the water. Not your usual Hollywood sci-fi fare with million-dollar C.G.I. and flashy explosions but still taut with enough action to keep you on edge. More reminiscent of the French New Wave Horror movies like Alexandre Aja's High Tension and Xavier Gens' Frontier(s), only this is a much quieter film without all the gratuitous gore.

Hell isn't a terrible movie. I've seen far worse, particularly in the post-apocalyptic genre. However, it doesn't really try too hard either to better than all the rest.A group of survivors, caught in a world that has been overheated due to the Sun going haywire, tries to make it to a promised land of milk and honey. Or... in this case a land of water and erm...more water.Using simple over-saturation techniques to portray the blistering world works better than it really should and does get across the feel of a world that is slowly dying.What is not so good are the characters. Though acted decently, the characters per se are bland, bitchy and lacking anything like any real smarts. Yet we are supposed to believe that they have survived in this Hell for three years or more. Other than the ability to wrap themselves up against the sun's dangerous rays and siphon petrol, all of them are lacking in the survival skills that you would think such a group would acquire after three years.The story moves along decently and is fairly interesting right up until the inevitable Hills Have Eyes plot sets in, with our group falling afoul of a family of mountain dwellers who have developed a liking for Long Pig. Queue the inevitable (and sadly, rather tiresome) capture and escape and rescue motifs common to such story elements.Most of the group survive this ordeal (which isn't shown in as much graphical detail as it really required to make it stand out) and move on, escaping the grasp of the cannibals and .... the end.Hell is a rather formulaic movie which suffers from bland, charisma-free characters doing less than sensible things in a world that is poorly defined and realised.As I say, there are plenty of worse movies out there, but this one will not rank amongst the best. The low budget aside, a lot more could have been done with this feature to improve it, but it just wasn't. The result is a movie that feels like it was written by committee and not by someone with any passion for writing, let alone the genre.SUMMARY: Low budget, poor characters, weak story. Watchable, but very forgettable. Wait...what was I talking about again?

Check on any review of the German film 'Hell' and it'll tell you that it's a film 'of two halves.' I can't really add much to that.Set in the near future when the sun has scorched the Earth, leaving only a few survivors to scour the land for what they need most - in this case, water. We meet four of them as they travel across Germany, unable to set foot in the sunlight and doing much of the travelling at night, as they desperately look for the fabled mountain range where it still rains.The first half is pretty good. It takes the whole 'can't go out in the sunlight' idea and introduces many nice touches, i.e. how the characters have developed new patterns of living, plus how they ingeniously find various ways of getting more water (out of pipes, using cloths to soak moisture off cave walls and so on). Plus the acting is good. Everyone plays their part well and there isn't a Jar-Jar Binks among them (in other words, hideously annoying and unbearable to watch).However, the second half kind of slips up on itself and turns the whole thing into a simple 'escape from the baddies' movie. It even comes complete with 'running through the woods' scene. Plus the idea of being unable to go out in the sunlight kind of gets forgotten about. The sunlight suddenly plays no real part in the second act, even to the extent that the characters are somehow able to run about it in with no real side effects.What starts off excellent, just ends up being okay-ish. It's definitely worth watching, even if it's just for the nice atmosphere created and decent first half. If you fancy a German subtitled version of The Road, give it a try.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

Refreshingly bereft of pretense, done in a pleasingly stark and straightforward manner, with no needless fancy special effects and a welcome emphasis on the raw human element over empty flashy spectacle, this resolutely grim and gripping tale of four desperate individuals struggling to stay alive in a bleak, barren, and unforgiving world ravaged by the unsparing heat of the scorching sun whose journey to find water in the mountains only to run afoul of a dangerous backwoods family who have resorted to cannibalism out of basic necessity makes a virtue out of its modest budget by wisely keeping things small scale and intimate throughout. Director Tim Fehlbaum, who also co-wrote the compact and compelling script with Oliver Kahl and Thomas Wobke, relates the engrossing story at an unwavering brisk pace, smartly explores the central themes of trust and loyalty, and does a bang-up sound job of depicting a plausibly harsh'n'hostile environment where savagery and hopelessness reign supreme. The uniformly stellar acting by the capable cast rates as another substantial asset: Hannah Herzsprung delivers an excellent performance as the determined Marie, Stipe Erceg contributes a fine portrayal as resourceful top mechanic Tom, Lars Eidinger registers well as the meek Phillip, Lisa Vacari makes a favorable impression as Marie's cute and appealing younger sister Marie, and Angela Winkler excels as the tough and redoubtable matriarch of the monstrous backwoods clan. Markus Forderer's striking widescreen cinematography provides a spot-on severe bleached-out rendering of the hellishly hot and desolate landscape. Lorenz Dangel's rattling score does the heart-pounding trick. Recommended viewing for fans of this genre.