You won't be disappointed!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

In Fact, there are quiet many German movies which have brought the evidence to establish themselves as classics. In general these movies are dramas or comedies and very often they provide the viewer with historical informations of a certain time and area. However, what is often missing is suspense. Allhough German television is full of good crime stories and thrillers this Genre is hardly found in German cinema. At least this is one reason why I like this movie so much. 23 allows to enter the mind of a burnt out, intelligent but unloved son, who tried to break out of his boring life by rebelling against his dominant father and the establishment of the mid 80th. Where as his protest uses to be more like coming out of a group behavior which is based on ideals his intention during the movie changes completely and ends up in a computer spy environment heavily connected with a continuous downward development of his mental and physical condition. In one sentence: This movie is one of those that shouldn't end because you want to know more about everything,the whole thing, so deep you will place yourself into the plot and you don't want to leave it. 23 changed my life. Afterwards, I had another opinion about reality.Check it out yourself, I extremely recommend this movies

i was kind of disappointed when i watched the movie, because i expected to see another "Hackers" inspired style- or maybe some conspirancy-theory-movie like The X-Files.but instead i got a drug-addict drama. okay, okay, maybe the hacking scenes where realistic, but that's only one positive aspect. and i also missed Clifford Stoll, and his hunt for Markus Hess aka Urmel. Where were those characters? they were pivotal in catching Hagbard.I am sorry. But this is not a good movie.

A typical German movie with a bunch of untalented actors that sure never studied how to play in a movie, but learned everything on theatre stages. But there is a difference between movie and theatre. I wished German actors finally learned about that. I can hardly believe this is based on a true story, but if they say so it must be true.Rating: 2 / 10

Saw this at our local film festival. Feels very heavily influenced in terms of style and presentation by Britain's Trainspotting - the main protagonist haircut, cachetic physique, overdose scenes, etc. Still, the lead can give Ewan McGregor a run for his money in the acting department. Of course, the story is completely different from Trainspotting.Well constructed and developed story. One can feel the main character's escalating paranoid and eventual loss of control as circumstances and events got too big for him to handle. Was there really such a character in real life? Poor chap.