"Die Jagd nach dem Bernsteinzimmer" or "The Hunt for the Amber Room" is a German 110-minute movie from 2012, so this one has its 5th anniversary now in 2017. It is the third and so far most recent entry to the German "Hunt for" film series. These are all small screen releases and like the second, this one here was directed by Oscar nominee Florian Baxmeyer, which shows how mediocre has career become since his early success. He simply cannot make it to the big screen and his small screen works like this one here are also really weak "lots of "Tatort" episodes included). Anyway, it sucks to see how many writers worked on this film here and how bad it has become. The only reason it is probably not (considerably) worse than the two previous films is because how low these were as well. The cast offers a handful known actors still, but really most of them are more about charisma and maybe also looks and not about range. Bettina Zimmermann is the perfect example for this.
The film loses itself in a bizarre story-line about amnesia and it becomes obvious early on right away that the doctors in this film couldn't care less either and I guess this is also true for a big part of the crew. Or they just don't have the talent. The crew I mean obviously. Anyway, I think the Amber Room is such a rich historic reference that with good focus this could have been a pretty nice, tense and atmospheric film with smart plot references. Instead it feels much more about a cat-fight between two women who want the male protagonist for themselves. What else can I say here. Even the Amber Room references felt shoddy and not well-executed at all. Such a shame. Overall, like I already said earlier, this film here is on par quality-wise with the previous installments to the series and looking at this (lack of) quality we should hope for them to stay away from a 4th film. Then again, can you really blame them if enough people watch it on television and the ratings are high enough to greenlight sequels. Maybe you cannot even blame the producers really. And honestly, what is wrong with the Bambis or I should say Bambia audiences that they turn this crappy movie into an award-nominated work even. Embarrassing stuff. Do not watch.
The film loses itself in a bizarre story-line about amnesia and it becomes obvious early on right away that the doctors in this film couldn't care less either and I guess this is also true for a big part of the crew. Or they just don't have the talent. The crew I mean obviously. Anyway, I think the Amber Room is such a rich historic reference that with good focus this could have been a pretty nice, tense and atmospheric film with smart plot references. Instead it feels much more about a cat-fight between two women who want the male protagonist for themselves. What else can I say here. Even the Amber Room references felt shoddy and not well-executed at all. Such a shame. Overall, like I already said earlier, this film here is on par quality-wise with the previous installments to the series and looking at this (lack of) quality we should hope for them to stay away from a 4th film. Then again, can you really blame them if enough people watch it on television and the ratings are high enough to greenlight sequels. Maybe you cannot even blame the producers really. And honestly, what is wrong with the Bambis or I should say Bambia audiences that they turn this crappy movie into an award-nominated work even. Embarrassing stuff. Do not watch.