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Lauf um Dein Leben - Vom Junkie zum Ironman (2008)
Problems, Problems, Problems...
There is only one thing less suited to base a movie upon than a video game: Real Live. This might put me in a be bias position, but this movie lost me at the opening credits when it said "based on a true story". What followed where 90 minutes of pure agony. After the first 10 minutes everyone had problems, not one of them could attract my sympathy or even interest in their character and the blunt overacting would have put William Shatter to shame. The plot - boy takes drugs, boys life gets destroyed, boy manages to overcome his addiction and criminal ways by becoming really athletic - was really lame and predictable. It's basically the movies title. The over-acting was terrible. Everything everybody did became so overly dramatic and important (when it really really wasn't) that I actually began to feel ashamed for watching this.
My final recommendation: If you like watching movies that look like they were made for late night TV, about people whose only function it is to have and express problems normal people really can't relate to: Go for it. If you, like me, go to the cinema to be entertained (on whatever level) stay the **** away!
Fata Morgana (2007)
Painfully dull
Maybe I'm wrong to write about a movie I walked out of after 25 incredible long minutes (maybe all the interesting stuff happens after the first half hour?) but I just couldn't take it anymore!
(Some spoilers ahead) Was I supposed to feel anything more than genuine annoyance and dread for those stupid kids who drive into the desert without any good reason? "Hey let's get of the road and try to get lost, that sounds like a good Idea!" Until they get lost, I was just annoyed with the Kids and slightly amused about "The Stranger" who looked just like Peter Maffay. But after they started walking there doesn't really happen anything. I was so bored that I rather walked home from the cinema, through the rain, than having to watch this till the end. Don't get me wrong, I can absolutely enjoy slow or even art movies. But there was nothing I could cling to here. The actors didn't convince me for a second, the soundtrack was way boring and cliché and even the picture quality was rubbish (really grainy) - all that combined with a wannabe-artistic direction (some real dramatic cuts of... nothing happening) and a non-existing story was just to much. Please give me back my 4!
PS: The _ONLY_ nice thing was some nipple after 10 minutes. And even that was below average.