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4/10
Competent cinematography...
jocedeg3 March 2008
..and, well... not much else.

This movie takes place in a world where the laws of physics don't exist. The action sequences just don't make any sense. The final bike jump is like something out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon: acme physics at work.

I know German cars are well built, but the beating all these Mercedes take in that movie is just hilarious ! And they still roll ! Alison King is cute, but she can't act. But, hey, what can you do with such a stupid script ? If you have 90 minutes to waste, like, really really waste, then this movie will do that for you.

But they will be wasted forever: no refund, so think about it !
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6/10
Great Ads for Red Bull & Mercedes - Not much else
AirBourne_Bds2 February 2007
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This acting was very wooden and I have never heard of any of the principals, I am glad that Germans speak English so well now! However, the plot was a bit predictable - the female cop on the run so quickly after some guys get skewered with arrows? Gimme a break! Why did the same woman then seduce the hero? A cop? Just so? She wanted to pin the blame, and any idiot would know David was not the assassin if they would dust the bow for prints and then do a psychological evaluation and try to gauge if he had any combat or acrobatic skills.

But then the plot would dry up faster than tumbleweed in Arizona during July...

As for Jenny forgiving David in the course of the film, that was a stretch of reality beyond the usual suspension of plausibility. It seems to me the movie was just a vehicle to show how tough and versatile the small Mercedes coupe is and what a life-saver Red Bull after a good fright! They can't even edit the film properly - after one chase scene, you clearly see a stuntman leap out of the top of the burning black Mercedes sedan, get real! http://bajanreporter.blogspot.com/
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2/10
Final Contract, no kidding, it should be
delhart200128 January 2007
Sorry folks this is a stinker, i only write a preview if it is really good, really crap, or there are other previews that are not 100 percent true, in my opinion. This movie falls in the second category, acting, directing, story,continuity in fact everything about the film is not good. It seems like someone got the idea to make a film in Germany, advertise for any American and English people in the area,throw them all together, with two writers, who have zilch credits to there names, lastly add to the mix a German (i think)director,who has only a couple of directorial credits to his name, none i hasten to say in English, and you have it, a no brainer of a film. there are a couple of posts on here, one from a starstruck teenager in love with Drew Fuller, in fact she sounds a little creepy, and a french person who, well read it and see. i am not going into the story/plot as there is not one, but when you see 20 or 30 German SAS/Police, and they all talk American/English, in Gemany, enough said.
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Surprisingly good!
akhilaraheem18 October 2008
I was just thinking of passing sometime by watching this on DVD and the surround quality on the DVD was bad too! But the very second scene itself it turns out to be interesting. Story plot is interesting, script is fine but the surprise is the action. You'll never expect such blowing scenes from a low-profile movie. Tanja(Jenny) has to improve her acting skills. Others were fine including the Hero (Fuller). Car jumping scenes building to building reminds one of Lethal Weapon movies. Watch it if you like action flicks. It will surprise you. Good car chases. So my recommendation is; WATCH IT WITHOUT ANY HOPE AND YOU WILL LOVE IT!
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2/10
How not to make a movie
drystyx17 December 2007
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This movie doesn't even have enough laughs to be in a worst film festival. The plot, as near as I could make out, was an innocent man wrongly accused of being a super assassin so clever she thinks she can coerce a man into doing something that would require a spoiler to tell you how stupid it would be. The assassin has killed all the witnesses against some important rich guy on trial, except for one. She tries to make this guy kill the last witness for her. There's too much that is worse about this movie to go into the flaws of the plot. First, the movie is car chase after chase. Bond movies got away with car chases because there were plenty of cutaways, and the chases weren't overdrawn. Some movies, like Road Warrior, gave us open top vehicles with wild costumed people inside, and intriguing backgrounds, such as the desert. The reality is car chases are boring, because motor vehicles are boring, except to red necks, dorks, (and yokels who've never seen a car I suppose). And nothing is more boring than watching cars driving (speeding, wrecking, who cares) down boring city streets. Then there are some characters whose English cannot possibly be understood (the blonde girl enunciates so bad, she probably utters two words that a viewer can interpret). Just go ahead and put subtitles on instead of let them speak gibberish! And every stereotype scene you can imagine is in here. The actresses are so bad, they make the lame actors look like de Niros in comparison. It is truly impossible to watch this film without fast forwarding most of it, particularly the dull car chases that seem to take eons. When you see the last witness finally led on screen, and you're hoping that this stereotype isn't there, be prepared; it is, and I dare you not to groan. The film tries to work on a juvenile level, but fails even there. Someone could make a poll, what is worse in this movie, the writing, acting, or directing? I propose that we make captured terrorists watch this film until they crack. I don't care if it's inhumane beyond all reason. It would put this celluloid to good use.
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7/10
Good action Plot So so. Dumb Cops
clogan-16 December 2008
Good action, Plot So so. Dumb Cops. The movie is not as bad as some of posters suggest. Physics? In an action movie? Ha LOL Please. Have you seen XXX ? or a bond film? The action is good the plot is a little heavy handed ,but I think that is just to keep the pace moving along. Personally I wish they had some nudity but there you go. The Cops are as dim as can be. Man if I decide to commit a crime I am going to Germany! (If the cops are like that) I love the Beating that the Cars took in the movie. So much metal scrunched yea. I love seeing helicopters on the go. They didn't use them to the best but they were there. I would say this one is worth watching. If for the car crashes if nothing else.
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7/10
Unbelievable pace - very enjoyable for an action movie
smith21212131 October 2008
I was captivated by this movie from the first scene to the last. The pace was so fast that I did not dare look away from the screen in case I miss the next turn of events. I also liked the storyline: a nice, harmless young man suddenly finds himself in the middle of a full scale war between a professional killer, who is a very clever, ruthless and beautiful lady, and the police. Of course the plot is not very realistic, which action movie is? Everything is exaggerated to make it more exciting. But compared to many other action movies, the plot is cleverly constructed and makes sense. There are even some humorous elements - like the way this young man tries to hold on to good manners in the midst of chaos, or the scene where a police commando storms the workshop of the young man's uncle who thinks this is about unpaid parking tickets. I have no explanation for the sharply negative comments on this page. It could be that the English version, which I have not seen yet, is much worse than the German version, but I doubt it. I also don't understand the complaint about German police not speaking in their native language. But this may be due to the fact that in Germany all foreign movies are dubbed and therefore I am used to it.
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8/10
This is about the speeding tickets right!
sol121810 November 2009
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***SPOILERS*** Fast and non-stop action thriller that despite being almost unknown to the movie going public puts most of the James Bond, and its many imitators, actions films to shame.

David Glover works for his uncle's, Mr. Wagner,] Fed-EX like delivery company in Berlin Germany called the Berlin Express. It's by sheer accident that David gets himself involved with a major assassination attempt on the only witness who could put big time international mob boss Victor Labeque behind bars for the murder of Mr. Sanders and his family his wife and five year old son. It was Sanders, a German industrialist, refusal to go along with Labeque's plan to sell illegal arms to terrorists groups that cost the lives of him and his family.

With cross-bow lady assassin Lara commandeering his delivery van David is forced to get involved in her using him as the person to assassinate the only witness who could testify against Labeque in his upcoming murder trail at the Berlin Hall of Justice. To make sure that David doesn't chicken out on the task that she has assigned to him Lara has his girlfriend, and fellow Berlin Express deliver woman, Jenny kidnapped and held hostage to be murdered, by cross-bow, if David doesn't come through! It's when David sees who he's to murder that not only he but Jenny, who's sees the person on a short-circuit TV screen in Lara hideout, realizes just how sick and evil both Lara and her employer Victor Labeque really are!

Mile an minute action with amazing heart-stopping chases on land sea and air makes you completely forget just how unbelievable the movie's storyline really is. Yet the action scenes are so amazing and non-stop that for the most part the movie's plot is the last thing that your interested in! Just wanting to do his job as a parcel deliver driver David ends up being mistaken for the assassin who had already murdered two previous witnesses in the Labeque trial as well as some dozen or so policemen who were protecting them.

***SPOILER ALERT*** Trying to prove his innocence as well as save Jenny and help catch the real assassin Lara just about took everything out of David in the movie. In the end David by risking his life in being killed by both Lara and the German police and SWAT-like assault team headed by Chief Hillman pulled off the impossible! But only after the city of Berlin suffer it's most destructive damage since the "Battle of Berlin" when the Red Army captured it back in April/May 1945.

The most effective, as well as moving, scene in the film had nothing to do with the many action scenes in it. It had to do with the emotionally packed confrontation between David and his Uncle Wagner at the Berlin Express office. Knowing that David was an innocent stooge and without his help he's doomed to either death or a life behind bars, if captured by the police, Mr. Wagner did the right thing at the end of the movie. Mr. Wagner that by giving David both the time as well as cover to save Jenny's life and put Lara's evil plan, to murder the only remaining witness against Labeque, to an end.
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10/10
Amazing because Drew is in it and he's adorable
dalolo912 January 2007
I love this movie because Drew Fuller is in it. Hes such a attractive guy, what girl wouldn't want to see him. Best movie ever. Drew is a wonderful actor and I believe hes my favorite of all. He's amazingly gorgeous and such a heart-throb. I wouldn't want to see anybody else in this movie but him. He's super amazing and i love it. I enjoyed seeing him in Charmed and now getting to see him be a start in this movie is just seriously great. Drew is such an amazing actor that words just cant describe him. Not only is he attractive, but he puts emotion into his work. I absolutely loved this movie because Drew is the star and he is a super outgoing character and should be in many many more amazing movies just like this one. Drew is the best actor ever.
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