Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This is a brilliant film. Tons of great action and suspense, a real thriller that isn't so much about scaring the audience as just keeping them on the edge of their seats. It also has lots of great comedic moments as well. It's like Groundhog's Day meets Frantic or Sliding Doors... hard to describe but totally unique and will keep your attention.

This one was probably the big breakthrough of Tom Tykwer. He got a lot of praise for "Lola rennt" - the original German title - in Germany and as "Run Lola Run" his movie brought him worldwide attention and a huge followership as kind of a mainstream arthouse auteur director. The music sets the pace as we listening to a fast beating heartbeat. This film never slows down. Franka Potente - the main actress - is always in motion, she never gets a rest here. Same thing with the cinematography. It's a music video in MTV style really. Tracking shots, close-ups, sometimes the live action story switches to Lola as running cartoon character. When she meets, bump into or screams at a passerby, we get quick flashes of their lifes and how they will turn out after this butterfly-effect encounter. "Run Lola Run" is structured in three different processes of the same story with every single story showing a different decision made by Lola and how the story changes because of it. It's not only Lola who runs, it's the whole film that is running away and we have to be fast and coming along to don't lose track of Franka Potente and Tykwers swift style.

Run Lola Run is a quick paced, low budget film about a young woman trying to save her boyfriend who has lost the hundred thousand he was to deliver to a mob boss. She has twenty minutes to find a hundred grand and get to him before he robs a grocery store. As you can expect, the film moves extremely fast to give you a sort of adrenaline rush, quickly cutting to various angles and tracking shots, interspersing cartoons, throwing in small vignettes with no bearing on the story but interesting nonetheless. It's an entirely original film with a great soundtrack, a movie I don't think has been recreated since. The closest equivalent I could come up with are the Crank movies, though I think those are a little more crazy in how they build that bullet train pacing.Lola is a pretty good movie all around though I didn't feel a real connection to it. The characters are built up a bit but ultimately didn't come across as three dimensional to me and the plot was only there to service the action. As an eighty minute film, you can't go wrong and it really is unique and fun. But despite all the originality of the direction and cinematography, I can't help but feel it's still a fairly hollow movie in the end.

When Run Lola Run hit the scene my then girlfriend urged me to see it because it was great. I attributed that to the color of her hair, almost as Lola's screaming red, and dismissed the issue.Almost a decade later i came upon a DVD copy on sale in a local store and purchased it. Boy was my initial estimate wrong.From today's perspective, the writing and photography of Run Lola Run are a regular staple in any thriller. However, for the time of it's creation it was revolutionary, although not the first movie to use these means. Not to mention that this movie came from Germany, a country not exactly at the forefront of world's cinematography.The only thing i could complain about is that photography reminded me of TV quality not necessarily cinema level, but that's a detail.And if you're wondering where the floating tram was filmed, it was Wuppertal, apparently the only reason to visit the city.