Run Lola Run
[DVD Info]

This German flick is about a girl named Lola (Franka Potente) who gets a call from her boyfriend of one year Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) asking where she was earlier today. She's always one time...why was she late this one time? She tells him that her moped was stolen so she took the taxi to their meeting place but he wasn't there. What's the big deal? The big deal? Well...because she was late he had to take a train (with a big bag of money from a deal that he was doing for someone [I think it was diamonds]) and some police chased him off after he helped a bum up from falling and he forgot the bag of money on the train. He decides he should knock off a store and get the $100,000 he lost. Lola pleads for him to wait for her. She'll be there in twenty minutes.

There are three scenarios that happen. Each of them have different outcomes and they change the lives of the people who come in contact with them. A lot of running is involved.

"Did you run here?" ~Manni

I know it was caled "Run Lola Run" but there was more running involved then I thought there would be... ^^;

I didn't really get this movie. Did all these scenarios happen or were they just what if's? I also didn't understand why the people she ran into different times had different things happen to their life just because she was a few minutes later? And Lola seemed to keep these other episodes in mind. I haaaaaaated the talks they had in bed! They were awful. They were so needy and nagged each other till they said what the other wanted to hear. It really didn't seem like they were in all that much love. In scenario 2 her dad was an uber jerk... He was bad in all of them but the worst in #2. The camera shots looked like a jittery teen was holding a hand held camera the whole time. It was making me a little dizzy! Oh well. I didn't like how it always started out the same and it didn't make much sense to me so it was hard to get too into it. Because of this, the jury gives this flick:

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