Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) (1998)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 80
Fresh: 74 | Rotten: 6
More fun than a barrel of Jean-Paul Sartre, pic's energy riffs on an engaging love story and really human performances while offering a series of what-ifs and a blood-stirring soundtrack.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 1
More fun than a barrel of Jean-Paul Sartre, pic's energy riffs on an engaging love story and really human performances while offering a series of what-ifs and a blood-stirring soundtrack.
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Movie Info
Tom Tykwer directed this German thriller in which Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) handled a smuggling job, delivered the loot, collected the payment, left the bag on the subway, and now has 20 minutes to gather 100,000 deutsche marks or confront the wrath of his boss, local criminal Ronnie (Heino Ferch). Desperate, Manni phones his girlfriend Lola (Franka Potente) who immediately runs downstairs and through Berlin streets to the bank run by her father (Herbert Knaup). However, she's rejected and leaves
Jun 18, 1999 Wide
Dec 21, 1999
Sony Pictures Classics
Cast
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Franka Potente
Lola -
Moritz Bleibtreu
Manni -
Herbert Knaup
Lola's Father -
Armin Rohde
Mr. Schuster -
Joachim Król
Norbert von Au -
Nina Petri
Jutta Hansen -
Heino Ferch
Ronnie -
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Ludger Pistor
Herr Meier -
Lars Rudolph
Herr Kruse -
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All Critics (90) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (74) | Rotten (6) | DVD (24)
Run Lola Run is fun, fun, fun.
Top CriticCleverly juggling the elements and encounters of a simple thriller scenario by using multiple viewpoints and a domino effect to create different destinies...
Not only does Lola run, she takes this hyperkinetic pop culture firecracker of a film with her.
...a sort of power-pop variation on the mystical time-bending Euro-art movies made by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Interspersed with Lola's zigzag swiftness are moments when the action shifts into trancelike tableaux.
Teenagers with a taste for the offbeat may enjoy.
Run Lola Run takes a few moments to muse about the nature of time and the purpose of man... But its real agenda is the purpose of woman.
Accompanied by techno music and populated by young and likeable "hip" protagonists, Run Lola Run is very pleasing to the eyes and ears of its viewers.
despite its brittle techno-punk rhythms and spots of nihilism... this is sort of a throwback to the days before the talkies
When you drop a reality-based attitude and go with the flow, Run Lola Run leaves you slightly breathless with admiration.
Run Lola Run could very well be the punchiest piece of concept art to ever hit the silver screen, a shock-dose of German existential cinema you can ride.
Tom Twyker's frenzied directing is never dull, and casting his girlfriend [Franka] Potente in the role was a smart choice.
All the actors do perform excellently in their roles, but the star here is the director Tom Tykwer. The layering of the imagery, soundtrack, and the pacing all come together to outshine any performance by a single actor.
Compared to the alternate scenarios envisioned in Sliding Doors or Blind Chance, Run Lola Run comes across as pedestrian.
this goofy, audacious, visually stylized omnibus of what-ifs that operates on its own peculiar logic, and powers along with the force of a truck on the Autobahn.
The populist bang of Speed meets snobbish, espresso-fueled elitism.
For writer and director Tykwer, the meaning of life is strongly colored by small incidents of coincidence.
Run Lola Run sets new standards for the cinema of hysteria.
...it's a stylistic triumph--swift, witty, consistently dazzling to behold.
Every tick of the 81 minutes in Run Lola Run is pounding with kinetic energy and double-espresso adrenaline, like a marathon inside a rave inside a fusion reactor.
What a blast!
Run Lola Run is a high-octane pulse-pounder driven by style, speed, deviously clever flourishes, and a driving techno-beat--a film that moves so fast it almost breaks free of its limited orbit.
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- Lola rennt (DE)
- Run Lola Run (UK)
