"Das Arche Noah Prinzip" or "The Noah's Ark Principle" is a West German German-language film by writer and director Roland Emmerich, still one of Germany's biggest stars in Gollywood more than three decades later. This is actually one of his earliest works as a filmmaker and he was not even close to famous at that point. Not surprising though as he was still in his late 20s. This 100-minute movie is probably the most known work from actor Richy Müller. But it's nowhere near Emmerich's most known of course as he was still pretty young here and also because this movie is in German language, so not as easily accessible for Hollywood. It takes at the end of the 20th century and looking at how this movie was from the 1980s, it wasn't even that far away actually. But I never thought that this was a realistic example of what life may be like 15 years later, which means that the film is almost worthless in terms of realism. It is more of a dark vision and fantasy mostly. I may be a bit biased as I never liked SciFi too much, but I still expect better quality than this. I also found most of the actors really forgettable, but can you really blame them looking at how poorly their characters were written. A good way to describe this film would be science-fiction for the sake of it. I cannot say I enjoyed the watch at all and there is really nothing memorable about this one. I also would not call it a disaster or a failure, but it lacks in way too many areas to let me recommend it. Pretty boring and only for the most hardcore SciFi fans. Everybody else should skip.
Review of The Noah's Ark Principle
