Really Surprised!

Excellent, a Must See

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

And this is what I like. We can read about it later if we want more details. The reconstitution here is just plain great. Great fights, great bombings, great shootings, better than americans. The acting is excellent. We are plunged into a dark past for two hours. And the germans make the best terrorists.

Well made, just a pity about the lack of objectivity.Well-shot, well-acted biopic. A pity then that the director and writer clearly left their objectivity at the door. The movie was so anti- establishment and pro-the terrorists that it became irritating to watch. The terrorists are portrayed as glorious idealists and the cops and government as bumbling fascist bastards. This despite the fact that the German legal system gave the terrorists every possible break. This all said, the cinematography and action sequences are great, as is the acting.

Most people have most likely forgotten this era in the history of Europe. But those that grew up in these times can most likely remember this well. There were of course more terrorist groups in those days but for myself, coming from The Netherlands, these were one of the more notorious groups. Although the cause was not as much the problem, the means to try to achieve this were of course totally unacceptable. The movie is a good depiction of this era and all what happened around the Baader Meinhoff group. Possibly not all fact are true in the movie but it's not a documentary, it's a proper movie with high realism. You have to see this in German of course, that adds to the realism of the movie. I think it's well played, no nonsense, believable characters. Watch it, well worth it I think!

If you are a leftist, anarchist, communist, historian or interested in history, R.A.F sympathizer, baby boomer, urban guerrilla sympathizer, wired different; or if you simply hate your government and like things go boom-boom and bang-bang, you will adore this movie. If you are none of the above mentioned, go watch Twilight. First things first, this is an adaptation of 'Baader Meinhof: The Inside Story of the R.A.F.' (which I bought after watching the movie) by Stefan Aust (who was in fact in touch with Ulrike Meinfoh and later the R.A.F. and later hunted by them). All the pictures and facts in the book have been depicted in the movie with astonishing accuracy. The book 'The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Projectiles for the People' also corresponds its credibility. So you won't be thrown in the wrong direction if you watch this movie. It is unbiased and you are free to make your own assumptions and principles. Secondly, the star cast. My personal best are Johanna Wokalek (Gudrun Ensslin), Sebastian Blomberg (Rudi Dutschke) and Bruno Ganz (Horst Herold). Of course, Moritz Bleibtreu (Andreas Baader) and Martina Gedeck (Ulrike Meinhof) and many others I don't know (as I'm not from Germany). Johanna quoting Mao, Sebastian crawling away after being shot at three times, and Bruno Ganz comprehending the political situation are some of my favorite scenes. So, summing up, we get to see how a group of youngsters who think ahead of their generation start protesting against the American and European capitalism, Vietnam War, bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killings of Che Guevara and Martin Luther King, autocracy of the Shah of Iran and hitherto politics by burning a department store, which is just the beginning of their doom. I saw this movie back in 2009. I'm reviewing it this late because of the recent hassle created by the Occupy protests. The acting is intriguing and the facts are real. You need to watch this one.