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		<title>Final Contract: Death on Delivery (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The English-language German movie &#8220;Final Contract: Death on Delivery&#8221; (aka &#8220;Dark Ride&#8221;) reminds me of the English-language French movie &#8220;Riders&#8221; (aka &#8220;Steal&#8221;). The two films have very much in common, including a lack of ambition when it comes to storytelling, but International money to burn on stunts. But whereas &#8220;Riders&#8221; managed to rope some familiar American faces like Stephen Dorff and Natasha Henstridge to star in its &#8220;stunt a minute&#8221; so-called movie, &#8220;Final Contract&#8221; has elected to go the unknown cast route with lead American Drew Fuller, who is primarily known to TV viewers for his stint on the &#8220;Charmed&#8221; TV series, and Alison King, herself a veteran of English television.
As with &#8220;Riders&#8221;, there isn&#8217;t a whole lot of story to &#8220;Final Contract&#8221;. To wit: American delivery hunk David (Fuller) is in Berlin, Germany working at his Uncle&#8217;s business. He has a crush on college-bound co-worker Jenny (Tanja Wenzel), but can&#8217;t bring himself to tell her, even though she feels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tattoo (2002) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2005 05:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plot is set in Berlin, where a maniac is preying upon people with intricate tattoos, harvesting their skin and leaving them for dead. The detective assigned to the case, Minks (Christian Redl) is a brutal, uncompromising thug who blackmails fresh-faced rookie Schrader (August Diehl, also in the German horror sequel &#8220;Anatomy 2&#8243;) into helping him after he is caught red-handed with recreational drugs. As the two investigate the growing number of victims, they are pulled into a seedy underworld of S&#038;M and extreme body piercing, where rich collectors pay high prices for the ultimate flesh trophies. However, the closer they seem to get to the killer, the more it becomes apparent that he too is watching them, and playing his own twisted game with their lives and sanity. 
The idea of an unlikely pairing of policemen facing off against a mysterious killer is one of the most overused ideas in modern cinema, though to Schwentke&#8217;s credit, he does manage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy 2 (2002) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite everything you may have heard, &#8220;Anatomy 2&#8243; is not a Teen Slasher film &#8212; and in this case, that&#8217;s a bad thing. Not having seen the original, I can&#8217;t tell if the whole point of the &#8220;Anatomy&#8221; series is to be goofy and not to be taken seriously. The biggest problem with this sequel is the screenplay by writer/director Stefan Ruzowitzky, who also helmed the 2000 original. The sequel is a funny film, in that its parts ludicrous and parts stupid, but all laughable. 
Our medical thriller stars Barnaby Metschurat as Jo, a studly intern from (from what I can gather) the boondocks of Germany. Jo arrives in Berlin to work at its central hospital, where he enviously eyes a position with Professor Muller-LaRousse (Herbert Knaup), a genius doing experiments that are not altogether legal. But Larousse is very selective, and Jo is left on the outside looking in. That is, until an unscheduled late-night surgery brings Jo to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demonium (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew I was in trouble when the first 12 minutes of &#8220;Demonium&#8221;, an Italian horror film, involved these scenes: a very unattractive woman having sex with her lover over the opening credits, then the lover exchanging silly greetings with people in business suits at his &#8220;office&#8221;, which is then intercut with the unattractive woman being stalked around the house by a deformed killer in a long black coat and a wide-brimmed hat. The woman is also supposed to be blind, because her eyeballs are permanently rolled upward (?) and she stumbles a lot. And apparently being blind also means the woman has lost all sense of touch (although this doesn&#8217;t explain the opening sex), since the killer dumps a rat into a bathtub she&#8217;s in and next we see her she&#8217;s nonchalantly climbing out of the tub sporting bleeding legs. 
To understand the silliness that is &#8220;Dominium&#8221;, it probably helps to learn that the director, one Andreas Schnaas, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pool (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2003 02:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Pool&#8221; joins the recent spate of German-made Teen Slasher movies to go international. Although the film is made by Germans and set in Prague, and most of the actors are German, the film&#8217;s American pedigree makes its classification as a German film somewhat irrelevant. You have to respect the people behind &#8220;The Pool&#8221; because they&#8217;ve covered all their bases when it comes to pleasing fans of the genre, as well as strengthening their ability to market the film outside of their native land. Consider the international cast, with American Kristen Miller (&#8221;Cherry Falls&#8221;) playing our Fair Hair Lead; there&#8217;s also a Scotsman, a Brit, and an Argentinean. How&#8217;s that for international appeal? 
In &#8220;The Pool&#8221;, a group of 20-something actors (and unless I&#8217;m mistaken, one of the actors looks to be in her &#8217;30s!) play teens that have just graduated from high school. Our fake teens are determined to go out in style, and plans to throw a bitchin&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nowhere in Africa (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2003 04:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reasonably certain that Caroline Link&#8217;s &#8220;Nowhere in Africa&#8221; will strike a cord with a lot of people. After all, it did when the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 2002, although how a movie made in 2001 qualifies for the 2002 Oscars, given out in 2003, is just one more mystery in a long line of mysteries when it comes to the American tradition most in need of common sense known as the Oscars. 
In &#8220;Nowhere&#8221;, a Jewish family flees their native Germany in 1938 when Nazism threatens to consume the country. Feeling the growing hostility against them, the father, Walter (Merab Ninidze), has gone on ahead to Africa to make way for his wife and child. Soon, Walter&#8217;s wife Jettel (Juliane Kohler) and young daughter Regina (Karoline Eckertz) comes to join him, leaving everything they know and cherish behind. Finding themselves in the middle of nowhere in the African countryside, the family works as caretakers for a British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stalingrad (1993) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2003 04:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The predicament for German filmmakers who want to tackle World War II is this: how do you make a movie, with heroes and such, about a historical period when your country was out slaughtering anyone and everyone who wasn&#8217;t part of their &#8220;great white race&#8221;? The movie &#8220;Stalingrad&#8221; answers that question by tackling the dilemma head on, and instead of heroes we have anti-heroes. Does it work? Answer: Every now and then, but not always.
The background to 1993&#8217;s &#8220;Stalingrad&#8221; is the Battle of Stalingrad, a brutal 2-year fight for Russia&#8217;s most important city that claimed millions of lives, soldiers and civilians. Hoping to choke off the Russian Army and take Russia, Hitler makes a hard push to destroy Stalingrad, throwing everything he has at to achieve this end. But the Russians also know the value of Stalingrad, and Stalin throws everything including the kitchen sink at the invading Germans. (For the Russian perspective on this battle, see &#8220;Enemy at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Das Boot: The Director&#8217;s Cut (1981) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2002 01:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am told German Wolfgang Petersen&#8217;s movie &#8220;Das Boot&#8221; is the submarine movie by which all submarine movies are measured. It just so happens that the submarine in question is a German one, and in a movie set during World War II, this is quite an anomaly. Then again, I&#8217;m sure the Germans were getting pretty tired of seeing World War II movies about them but never about them. 
&#8220;Das Boot&#8221; follows a submarine crew captained by Jurgen Prochnow, as they leave their French port in search of prey in the Atlantic Ocean. The crew is in for a rude surprise, as the British have been making strides in defending themselves. Into this battle goes Prochnow&#8217;s crew, but it isn&#8217;t long before fatigue, isolation, and signs of delirium and insanity begin to creep forward. If all of that wasn&#8217;t bad enough, Prochnow gets an order that may just doom his crew: make his way through a heavily defended stretch of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heaven (2002) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2002 02:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Heaven&#8221; is the latest film from German Tom Tykwer (&#8220;Run Lola Run&#8221;), and stars Cate Blanchette (&#8220;Bandits&#8221;) as Philippa, an Englishwoman in Italy who plants a bomb in a man&#8217;s office, only to have fate intervene and move the bomb to another location where it kills 4 innocent people. The movie makes clear that Philippa is not a terrorist, but a desperate vigilante trying to avenge the death of her husband and numerous other victims of a businessman/drug dealer. 
Joining Blanchett is Giovanni Ribisi (&#8221;Mod Squad&#8221;), one of the more talented young actors working today. Ribisi plays Filippo (the male name counterpart to Blanchett&#8217;s Philippa, natch), a cop at the Italian police station where Philippa is brought in. After falling madly in love with Philippa at first sight, the young and inexperienced Filippo creates the perfect breakout, and the duo soon flees the city and into the countryside, even as the country mobilizes after them.
The only way to approach &#8220;Heaven&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Princess and the Warrior (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2002 02:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer/director Tykwer&#8217;s follow-up to his breakthrough hit, 1998&#8217;s Run Lola Run, is 2000&#8217;s The Princess and the Warrior, a film that is not about a princess, a warrior, or a magical fantasyland. The movie is set in contemporary Germany, and concerns Sissi (Franka Potente), a young woman who works and lives at a mental institution but longs for so much more. One day Sissi runs across Bodo (Benno Furmann), a burnt out young man who is going through a personal hell; when Sissi is run over by a truck, it&#8217;s Bodo who races to her rescue. Out of the hospital and recovered, Sissi seeks out Bodo, believing that they were somehow meant to be together. When Bodo spurns her, Sissi is heartbroken, but later they meet again in the vault area of a bank. Unfortunately guns are involved, and it&#8217;s a robbery in progress&#8230; 
The Princess and the Warrior showcases a more mature Tom Tykwer, with Run Lola Run looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bandits (1997) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2002 05:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bandits is a German movie about a rock band made up of 4 different women with only one thing in common &#8212; they&#8217;re all currently serving sentences in prison. The band is led by vocalist and anti-social Luna, a gifted magician and songwriter with aspirations of becoming a rock star; Angel, the flirtatious and happy-go-lucky bassist; Marie, the oldest member of the band, who plays keyboard between attempts to take her own life; and Emma, a new prison arrival who at first refuses to join the band, but eventual acquiesces to life in prison and becomes the band&#8217;s drummer.  
If you think Bandits is just a German Chicks in Prison movie, you&#8217;d be wrong.  The women are only in prison long enough for us to know their personalities before they&#8217;re suddenly on the run on the outside world. Their unexpected flight from prison is courtesy of a gig they&#8217;ve been scheduled to do on the outside world: ironically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Run Lola Run (1998) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Run Lola Run,&#8221; if nothing else, certainly lives up to its billing. Our heroine, played by a orange-haired Franka Potente as the titular character, certainly does a lot of running. I&#8217;ve never seen a movie by Tykwer before, but he&#8217;s certainly someone to watch out for. There is something incredibly strange about &#8220;Run Lola Run.&#8221; For one, the movie constantly moves &#8212; only to stop on a dime for extremely quiet moments. This makes the viewer a little disoriented. One second Lola is running all around the city, and the next she&#8217;s quietly robbing her father&#8217;s bank; one moment she&#8217;s helping her boyfriend rob a supermarket, and the next she&#8217;s laying in bed with him talking teen love talk. 
The story around &#8220;Lola&#8221; isn&#8217;t anything special. We&#8217;ve all seen it before because it&#8217;s yet another variation on the &#8220;oh crap I lost the big bad mafia guy&#8217;s (insert item here) and now if I don&#8217;t get it back or replace [...]]]></description>
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