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Run Lola Run
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
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Based on 24 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Tom Tykwer
Directed by: Tom Tykwer
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 18, 1999
DVD: October 30, 2001
Running Time: 80 minutes, Color
Origin: Germany
Summary
RATING: R for some violence and language
Starring Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Armin Rohde, Joachim Król, Ludger Pistor, and Suzanne von Borsody
In a breathtaking race against the clock, a young woman has 20 minutes to find 100,000 marks or her boyfriend will be killed.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Tykwer's style gives the movie an explosive energy that never quits, marking him as the most ingenious new talent to hail from Germany in ages.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
As essential in its own way as Anton Karas' celebrated zither work was to "The Third Man," Lola's music is perfectly suited to the film's aims and just about addictive in its throbbing, insinuating rhythms.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
An existential chain reaction, yet as remarkable as his cinematic gamesmanship is the way that he traces the anatomy of feeling in Lola.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Chris Gore
I can't rave about this film enough -- this is passionate filmmaking at its best. One of the best foreign films, heck, one of the best films I have seen this year -- go see it!
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
The formula has rarely been done as well as it is in this goofy, audacious, visually stylized omnibus of what-ifs that operates on its own peculiar logic, and powers along with the force of a truck on the Autobahn.
Read Full Review >Newsweek Andrea C. Basora
With her Doc Martens and her spiky, fire-engine hair, Franka Potente makes a perfect Lola. Like the film itself, her tough, flashy exterior cloaks a warm emotional center.
Read Full Review >Variety David Rooney
A highly accomplished, compact feature, which, while it may be light on depth, is rich in humor, rhythm, energy and inventiveness.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
A movie that really zips along; it offers some of the same pleasures as the silent slapstick comedies, particularly the Keaton films, with their sense of how sheer velocity carries its own wit.
Read Full Review >Film.com Ernest Hardy
MTV, comic books and gangster flicks are all in Lola's cinematic family tree; it's a heady, breathless ride.
Film.com Gemma Files
The kind of thing Franz Kafka might have dreamed up, had he only had access to a daily dose of MTV.
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
A knock-down, haywire ballad of the adrenalinization of love and despair.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Manohla Dargis
It doesnt add up to much, which is part of the point as well as the fun, but what makes the film noteworthy is its pure pop adrenaline.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The film's extra-special trick, the one that kicks in under your radar because it's so busy with all the flash, is that it makes you care deeply for Lola and Manni.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Andy Klein
Wisely, Run Lola Run lasts something under 80 minutes; any longer, and it would have been as exhausting and boring as a half-hour Donna Summer track.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
Tykwer deliberately blows away all traces of the mundane and the familiar, so that not even the closing credit crawl moves in the expected way.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
It's both fractured and fluid, with a helter-skelter syntax and a ceaselessly infectious backbeat. Beyond that, it's a blast.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
The rush subsides, however, the minute the movie ends, and leaves the viewer with the faint aftertaste of a processed sugar high.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
I would not want to see a sequel to the film, and at 81 minutes it isn't a second too short, but what it does, it does cheerfully, with great energy, and very well.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Fun, fun, fun. Take the title at its word, because this movie is nothing less than a flat-out, lung-pumping, 76-minute sprint.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
The action is so fast that the viewer almost breaks out in a sweat...Ultimately vapid. Lola never does develop as a character, and the fuss seems ultimately pointless.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Furiously paced.
Salon.com Charles Taylor
Potente pumps strong and true from the first frame to the last.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
Invigorating and annoying, Lola could use a dose of Ritalin. Best to take this 76-minute riff on alternate destinies as an antidote to Europe's minimalist art-house cinema and to enjoy Potente's sweaty radiance.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
An enjoyably glib and refreshingly terse exercise in big beat and constant motion.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Joshua Klein
May be all Eurotrash flash, but it's not often that a film packs this much visceral punch.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
About as entertaining as a no-brainer can be--a lot more fun, for my money, than a cornball theme-park ride like "Speed," and every bit as fast moving. But don't expect much of an aftertaste.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Kind of like watching a John Waters film on fast forward with all the good parts cut out. It's empty of charm and meaning, but it certainly kills time, for those who wish it dead.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 24 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Mr. Hankey gave it a9:
Excellent story, Crazy Camera work and a Fast Techno beat give you a german arthouse movie called Run Lola Run. The movie shines because of it's original and yet extremely unusual idea's. The movie was great in many ways because of the reincarnation values and also the different speeds she would run because of those values. The movie was fabulous and interesting but left me wanting more and a little dissapointed when the end hit. It still was a pleaser and was a fabulous and interesting arthouse movie.
Silv3rfox gave it a10:
Incredible rush that will keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time!
Karen gave it a10:
Best movie ever!!!!!!
Lee D. gave it a 10:
Fast-paced, kinetic, absorbing, smooth, and so visually inventive that it achieves an adrenaline rush unlike anything you've ever felt. The defining movie of the end, and beginning of a millennium, Run Lola Run is one for the all-time lists- and I don't give that title away often.
Oli P. gave it a 9:
Fast 10, aber einer der BESTEN Deutschen FILME seit langem.
Pat C. gave it an 8:
Now this was a novel way to put a movie together. You have to be a brain surgeon though to get it all on the first viewing. Could have done without the animated interruptions - the makers didn't realize how good a job they were doing.
K F gave it a 10:
Just awesome.
