A Major Disappointment

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Wow took me almost three years to stumble onto this morsel. I googled 'best movies in Netflix you haben't seen'. It has been a very long time since I saw a truly remarkable movie. This is a must see and officially one of the greatest movie experiences in my time.Those reviewers who think Victoria's choice to go hang with these four strange dudes was unbelievable completely missed the essence of who she is. I mean I thought the same thing at first so I get that.But here it is...Victoria starts the film alone at a club w/ no friends. She hits on the bartender. No luck there so she takes her shot and leaves. She claims she has no friends. She is clearly lonely. You see it pour out if her when she plays the piano and breaks down conveying her dedication to her craft wasn't without sacrifice: a sensen of community.And so she begins the film alone, finds a taste of community she never really had with these four dudes... and ends up alone.Aside from this being a monumental technical avhievement, it is quite simply the reason I fell in love with movies in the first place. It's very difficult to 'wow' me these days so congrats to these fine film makers.Enjoy!

This is my first review here. This is what cinema is. This is true masterpiece! This is art. Can't recommend more! Don't ever doubt if this is worth your time. Simply sit down and watch it. It will blow you away. Acting is pure class and the movie rhythm, music and directing is superb.

A young Spanish woman living in Berlin meets some German guys while leaving a dance club leading to an all-night odyssey culminating in crime and violence. The gimmick here is that the entire movie was shot in one continuous take. It's an amazing accomplishment given the variety of settings and the extended action climax, but one that works against the film quite often. There's, by necessity, a lot of scenes of the characters travelling and they tend to improvise repetitive dialogue during the downtime. It drags down the momentum of a film that should be about mounting tension. It's still a mostly good film that's a masterful technical achievement.

This film had the potential to be one of the great ones if only someone had displayed the nous and courage to slash about 20 minutes from the first half.As I watched the film at home I kept shouting. "Okay, guys, we've got the message, now move along to the next step in the story." But my shouts were in total vain and there came several points in the first half where I came within a whisker of giving up on it and finding something else more enjoyable to watch. It wasn't until we got to the first cafe scene that the story began to take off -- as take of it most certainly did.Perhaps the problem for the director and the editors lay in the fact that much of it was a single, protracted shot. But they should have seen the need to delete some of the more repetitive sections.