Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

It's a good thriller. Starts really slow, and in the first 20 minutes, gets lost in useless scenes - which is why I brought a 6/10. But once we're past those sluggish minutes, things get a little too real. And this, I think, comes from the direction: everything is lead to be very ordinary. A regular girl, a regular girl, a regular building, a regular life. Everything is normal here - except it isn't. That's every abusive story we've ever heard of; it''s all very ordinary until one day the police discovers you've been raping your daughter in the basement for almost 20 years, and how terrifying things can get, because implausible details (like the SIM card) are awfully common in relationships like these. This movie goes to great lengths to show how scary that is, in subtle ways. Goes full fledged horror when you realise that the good person you see beating and raping a woman is teaching kids - girls, no less - and demeaning them, making them a little more susceptible to people like him. Kudos to Cate Shortland for having this insight, of showing how close we can get to an abuser; they're not deranged people, estranged from society. They walk among us. They have access to our children. They can talk their way out of almost everything. And we need to pay attention to the signs. Also, to the entire team of photography here, for capturing this notion and being able to depict it in great detail. We're drawn into this world. Some of us may even identify elements of our daily life in it - and the dread it entrails, when you realise you have a chair, a box, a lock, a coat, or anything like any of the characters... When you remember the time backpacking somewhere, the days you spent with a stranger... This movie is able to make this story real, and close. The notion that it could happen to you never leaves, and this is why it's such an unnerving movie. It's also an educational movie. Everyone has this big dramatic image of the abuser assaulting with kicks and punches, screaming at the top of his lungs. Max Riemelt is pristine at his performance, demonstrating perfectly that this is merely a stereotype; that doesn't always happen. He plays a very menacing abuser, without raising his voice at all. We see the wounds he inflicts, and we cannot believe he is the one doing all that - and even with a monster so well portrayed, he still manages to make us feel sorry for him in certain events. And there's Theresa Palmer, whose character makes that reality even more raw. The way she reacts, the words she says... Nothing feels fake, falling from pages of a script. It feels real. It feels like we could say those words, and fall under that trap. It's a remarkable movie, and it's worth at least one screening. It has some flaws, but it's worth the while.

Yes shes in a difficult situation but shes not locked in the dungeon. She has the full apartment to herself to find a way to knock out her perpetrator but only tries one attempt. She succumbs to him as a prisoner, everyone would consider it rape. If that's the case the anger should muster enough energy to take him out. The one attempt is pathetic, one minor strike which leaves him completely mobile, why not hit the leg. She doesn't even lock the door behind her to give her more time. She thinks asking a little girl, when hes close, for help makes more sense. As a lesson, its similar to a CA movie about girls meeting guys online without telling anyone. Well when she goes to his apt, she doesn't notify her mom with her good phone either where she will be. Girls/Young woman might not have the foresight to be safe when they might be in love. This might be the lesson. The ending does not redeem this movie at all.

Trust me, this movie is bad on every level. Trust me, you don't have to watch this. Watch it, and I told you so.There's no resolution on every aspects. You waited, maybe the ending have something surprising, but even that so lame. You can just remember all movies that you have watched, took some stories from those movies you know and voila, Berlin Syndrome. You think, maybe the movie will have something unique, but none whatsoever, even less, it's just plain.Can't believe they make this kind of movie anymore. Hey, we have this left over from plates, why not we concoct a film that looks good and promising, but the truth we don't take out anything from our pocket; because, extra money won't hurt. Plainly just for profit.

Berlin Syndrome is a psychological thriller. The location is Berlin as the title shows. So there is a bit of German language but not that much. The movie tells the story of a freak that actually looks perfectly normal and that what makes it creepy, a guy that holds an Australian tourist hostage in his remote apartment. A story like this would be very surprising fifty years ago but now we got already multiple examples in real life of such kind of deranged people. So it wasn't a big surprise or something new. Nevertheless the story might start slow, the rest of the movie is full of suspense. The suspense is mostly psychological bit it definitely works. The acting is good, and that from the whole cast. Maybe it could have had a bit more action, but than again I don't think it was very necessary. I didn't get bored at all and I'm sure you won't be either.