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Die Musterknaben 2 (1999)
A good movie, but not as good as the first one
Die Musterknaben 2 is still a good movie, but it can't stand the comparison with the first one. Both main actors do a good job and there are still some good jokes, but there is not much suspense.
But it is still fun to watch it.
Kaliber Deluxe (2000)
Not as good as I had expected
Before I saw this movie, I had seen the trailer several times and had read some comments. I was expecting something like a Pulp-Fiction-kind-of-movie or at least a action packed comedy.
Well, I was pretty disappointed. This movie was not too funny, most of the jokes didn't work, and the action was also not breath-taking. Most of the actors were pretty weak especially the one who had the main part (Mr. Harloff), from the weak actors I have to exclude the guys who played Alex (Jürgen Tarrach) and Honcek (Dieter Pfaff), they both did a great job. The main plot of the story was a romance between Mr. Harloff and Mrs. Hesme and the action only seemed to be added so that they could find at least some people who wanted to see this movie.
To be honest and that is the worst part about it, one has to admit that it was one of the better German movies, but this only shows the quality of the other ones.
I gave 6 points, mainly because it was a try in the right direction (if one had left out the romantic stuff, taken different actors, taken funnier jokes and made better action sequences, the movie could have been good) and because of the good and funny acting of Mr. Tarrach and Mr. Pfaff.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
This movie sucks!!!!
As you see I didn't like this movie as much as the others who commented it. In my opinion it is neither funny nor anything else. It is a slow movie, nothing happens at all, the story can be told in less than three setences. Black guy (Forrest Whittaker) believes to be a Samurai. He kills an Italian guy and is hunted and killed by the Italians who gave him the order to kill the guy, so that they can blame someone for the death. Yes this sounds weird. Even though this movie is not much longer than 100 minutes, probably even shorter, it seemed to me that it lasted for more than 3 hours. All this Japanese mytholigy stuff or however you want to call it seems to be pretty foolish and stupid, perhaps that is also Mr. Whittaker's fault. I can't see how anyone was impressed by his acting abilities in this movie. OK it is pretty hard to look indifferent throughout a whole movie. So don't go and watch it, it is boring has no action and some samurai stuff that only seemed to be added to give an intellectual impression.
If you like the music (Wu Tang) buy the CD instead, eventhough I think they were also quiet weak. I was completely disappointed by this movie, I don't want to blame anyone for that but how could someone give this movie more than 3 points, I gave 1 !!! In my opinion it was one of the 3 worst movies I ever saw in a theater (the other two were 187 and Burn Hollywood burn). So if you liked them perhaps you also like this one. To all the others DON'T WATCH IT!!!
Or perhaps I am just not intellectual enough.