BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

classicsoncall I envy the folks who managed to watch the shorter three hour version of this movie. I happened to come across a download version of the film in three parts, each with it's own set of opening credits that amounted to nearly five hours of the director's cut. Quite honestly, the most interesting thing that happened in the movie for me was that horrific car crash to open the picture when one of the bank robbers threw that beer bottle out the window of his car. After that, it was a looong, slow descent down an extended slope, notwithstanding the global odyssey that took place involving the principal characters. That whole business about the runaway nuclear satellite from India barely managed to impact my attention span. More than anything, when it came to the sci-fi aspects of this picture, I was reminded of the original mid-Sixties 'Star Trek' series in which Gene Roddenberry's futuristic vision came up with things like flip phones and Uhura's mini-skirts, things that translated into reality only a short time later. For this picture released in 1991, director Wim Wenders made a dramatic leap of faith to envision a world eight years into the future that included such things as viewing kiosks, facial recognition and locator technology, and glass front refrigerators, which when I think of the latter, who really wants to see wilting celery stalks and dripping milk cartons even before opening the door? I have to admit, some of the hand held telephone devices looked kind of interesting, except for the fact that they all looked a lot like art-deco artifacts from the Fifties. I don't know, maybe I'm missing something here compared to all the folks who praise the film for it's poetic vision, but for all of the lovely cinematography and stellar cast, for me this was as dry as the Australian Outback, which you could probably cross a lot sooner than the amount of time it takes to watch this picture.

Necoeddy I just wanted to express how much I enjoyed this film. I watched the almost 5 hour directors cut of this film for the first time on August 2017. I enjoyed the film so much that I lost track of time and was totally surprised that 280 min. had passed (4 hrs 40 min). I had never heard of Director Wim Wenders and I must say that I am now a fan. I am looking forward to viewing more of his films! For those of you that have read bad reviews for this film, ignore them. Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. Great Music, Characters, Acting and Story. Definitely one of my new favorites!

SnoopyStyle It's 1999. An Indian nuclear satellite is threatening to crash and party girl Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin) couldn't care less. The narrator Eugene Fitzpatrick (Sam Neill) is one of many men whom she had left behind. She gets into a car crash with two guys who robbed a bank in Nice and drives them for a share of the money. On the way to delivering the cash, she picks up Trevor McPhee (William Hurt) who is on the run from an armed man. After dropping him off, she goes to stay with Eugene in Paris and discovers that Trevor had taken some of the money. She pursues him to Berlin. She hires private detective Phillip Winter. Trevor is actually Sam Farber chased by bounty hunters and governments.The story is a meandering mess. The people don't really make sense. There are motivational problems. The plot wanders around the globe. Somebody should have taken the script back for a major rewrite. Director Wim Wenders is more interested in creating a near-futurist world which isn't that visually compelling anyways. This is a multi-lingual, Euro-epic of a sci-fi thriller but it's too long and too convoluted. It's too boring to be a fun bad movie.

kalhoun I just finished watching the 4 hour and 36 minute version of this movie and want to say that it is incredible! I've watched the American (Reader's Digest) version of it before and always had trouble making sense of it. Well, watching the longer version of it makes so much more sense.The idea that the flesh becomes the healing word on paper that saves us from our narcissistic dreams is fascinating concept.I compare this movie to Leoni's "Once Upon a Time in America". Only when the Director has control of the editing, does really become an awesome piece of art.The music is phenomenal! The story is mind-blowing. Very European pacing. I highly recommend it to all! www.harpo.ca