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9.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 23 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 23
  2. Negative: 0 out of 23

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  1. MathewB.
    Jul 30, 2005
    5
    Visually great, but it's tone is frustratingly inconsistant, and it's ultimatly anti-climatic.
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  2. RogerC.
    Apr 17, 2005
    10
    Fantastic film.
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  3. briank.
    May 4, 2005
    9
    Great and unusual movie. I haven't seen much like it, Go see it. Trust me.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  4. RichardL
    Apr 20, 2005
    9
    Fast paced, great cinematography, good acting, really cute actress, multi leveled (was it really the Grim Reaper or was it the guy's evil soul? was the girl a girl or an angel?). really cool film. go see it.
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  5. Angel
    Jun 2, 2005
    10
    If you want to fall in love with a beautiful hero, who gets bloodier and dirtier and more delicious frame by frame, and makes you want to escape to Hungary and follow him down into his underground to save him, go see this film.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  6. Jaybee
    Aug 18, 2006
    10
    [***SPOILERS***] This movie was great! I'm with Richard L. Was it his dark side pusing people off the platform? Did he really make it upon the platform at the end of the movie and see the bear girl. No one else seemed to notice her, maybe she was an angel and that's why he was finally able to go up to the outside.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  7. Ursula
    Apr 5, 2005
    10
    I saw this movie at the Fantasy Film Fest in Nuremberg, Germany, last summer and I was thrilled! It's funny, exciting, melodramatic, real and surreal at the same time. The cast does such a great job that you actually forget they're actors, which admittedly is easier if you don't know the actors... I can highly recommend it!
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  8. KatB.
    Apr 6, 2005
    9
    Clever and stylistically drenched in atmosphere. And due to this movies huge success in Hungary, the poor subway workers are now treated much better.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  9. [Anonymous]
    May 19, 2005
    10
    Must watch.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  10. JayW.
    May 2, 2005
    8
    This visually compelling cinematographer's delight eclipses an unevenly developed script that clumsily (and belatedly) introduces a villain and a romantic interest and rushes to bring it all together at the end.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  11. RiccardoV.
    May 23, 2005
    9
    Incredibile.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  12. TracyR
    May 31, 2005
    8
    Really enjoyed it. Smart and gritty and a little poetic, too. A hell of a first movie.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  13. ChadS.
    Aug 3, 2005
    8
    "Kontroll" takes place in a dark setting, and yet the comedy isn't particularly dark. The situations are often sophmoric, but because they take place in an underground subway, and not a mall, the laughs are tempered by a sad knowingness that the lives of these transit policemen are desperately bleak. "Kontroll" uses its location with such spectacular results, the constructed airport terminal in Steven Spielberg's "The Terminal" seems to have more in common with Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam(for "Full Metal Jacket") than we realized, when you compare the artful artifice against the vastness of this underground wonderland. "Kontroll" is what "Taxi Driver" might've looked like had Robert DeNiro rubbed elbows with Judd Hirsch and the other cabbies from ABC's "Taxi". Like this imagined pairing, "Kontroll" has great ensemble comedy and a crazy person on the loose. The mind reels at how great this film could've been if it went for a bleaker ending. Expand
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  14. doren
    May 16, 2005
    10
    This is a wonderful action film, with well developed characters, and intelligent dialog. The sound track also rocks.
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Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 25
  2. Negative: 2 out of 25
  1. 80
    Darkly funny and metaphorically potent.
  2. Grungy and uneven, but it has a rollicking pace and clearly intends to be good fun so that audiences may overlook its unsteady rhythms, pretensions and inconsistencies and take it for the fast and very furious ride it wants to be.
  3. Reviewed by: Eddie Cockrell
    80
    Crowd-pleasing, darkly comic joyride.