The Duke's Summary on Run Lola Run 9/99

Yeah, I posted my review a few weeks ago, but to sum up, like "Out of Sight" last year, I feel that "Run Lola Run" is the coolest film of 1999.

It is full of countless eye candy, and seems as if every style of filming was explored: animation, split screens, rotating frozen motion, grainy hand-held, photographs, intense close-ups, high aerial shots, flashbacks, flash-forwards, slow-motion, fast-motion, black and white, replay, sweeping pans, tight edits (to name a few)... Most certainly I say that this is a plus, because it keeps the audience on their toes, without falling into the MTV-style five second snippets of short-attention-span shots with too much movement and loud music. The fantastic techno music in "Lola" remains underneath the story, adding to it without overshadowing.

Franka Potente's Raggedy-Ann style bright red hair is hard to miss, and her soft features show off those big brown eyes which plunge me into a crush deeper than a 12-year-old boy staring at Pamela Anderson's chest. And what a primal scream! It's enough to break glass, literally. What can I say? I found her to be...how do you say? Ah, yes, "sexy".

Director Tom Tykwer steers clear of allowing the film to be repetitive and thus boring, as one might expect when repeating the same scenario three times consecutively. And I really loved how we see the effect Lola has on the lives she randomly touches in even the smallest ways.

Okay, that was a long summary, I know. Can't say I'm sorry, though, because this was a great film.