Trial by Fire (1998)
5/10
some moments can't save the film
2 February 2004
Warning: Spoilers
This is one of the movies which are bad but still have some sparkles.

I guess the authors had a gag (spoiler) - a company hides to make a surprise at a girl's birthday and sees this girl f***ed by a stranger. Then her boyfriend who saw the scene with his own eyes forgives her at once. (end of spoiler). What kind of a man is he after this? The answer is clear but the authors still have an hour and they have to fill it with something.

Then, no matter what they tried, they could not but use a cliche. Dumb football fans, overcaring mother - the only reason for her son failures, mutual attraction of poor and rich and many others and the pearl - young radical-feminist-green-communist who's intimate thought is to become a loving wife of a clerk. If the movie had lasted for a quarter of an hour more, she would remember the principles of three K, I guess.

Well, the sparkles are: the above-mentioned gag, Rudi Voller as an angel and marvellous smile of Lisa Martinek.

The acting is rather good and fits comedy well, but the plot spoils most of the crew's efforts.
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