I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

And this refers to the fact that almost nobody from the cast and crew of this film is still working prolifically in their respective fields. This includes especially writer and director Johannes Jaeger, who made this 100-minute movies based on a short film he wrote earlier in his career. This includes lead actor Mathis Landwehr as well, who is clearly a casting decision in terms of looks over talent. There were a couple situations in here when he was bearable and that was thanks to the supporting actress being even less talented. However, as bad as the acting in here may be, it has nothing on the abysmal writing, especially the dialogs. Good lord, a disaster from start to finish. Completely unfunny, unrealistic comments paired with the actors inability to deliver them convincingly easily makes this one of the worst films of the 21st century. The writing in terms of story wasn't good at all either, but it seemed like a revelation compared to the dialogs. There's better dialogs in porn no doubt about it. The story is very generic. Martial arts student has his master killed and he takes revenge on the one who did it. While doing so, he recovers a priceless book and falls in love with his buddy's sister. The music is a catastrophe as well, mix of hip hop and techno, which fits the tale only in terms of quality, but never in terms of contents. Horrible horrible film and I can only shake my head at other reviewers here who called this a hidden gem. Are you kidding me??? This does not even have German soap opera level. Stay far far away.

Quite a lot of illogical things. I found the idea nice to have a German action and fighting movie. But the actors are not good enough, the story is unbelievably flat. As example, you know who will be the traitor after about 20mins, whereas the actual treason takes place after an hour. Guns etc. have been forgotten, but are still in use by some of the people. The inhabitants of Berlin in 2045 are all young and handsome, they have supplies but no one knows where they come from etc.After all, the fighting scenes are quite nice, you have a connecting story, which unfortunately does not explain all the fights. But the story is more like those connecting parts of a computer game.... and that definitely is not enough for a real movie.

This movie was set up after two successful short movies called Kampfansage. With a film budget of just 300.000 Euro and about 30 days too short this movie came in incredibly good. The market for German produced martial arts is virtually nil and this could be seen as a mile stone. Although It'll most probably not appear in German cinemas (except the Fantasy Filmfest 2005) it was shown with great success at a film festival in Shanghai and will be marketed in China.The movie plays in the latter 2040's in a war tattered Germany. Europe and most probably the rest of the world has fallen into utter chaos after long years of fighting. Technology has vanished and the rise of martial arts has begun. An Evil ruler tried to conquer all of Germany and kill the present martial arts masters there. but was killed at the hands of the last remaining master. his children bosco and cleo now carry on his legacy and bring down the last master and his last disciple or so they thought...what will ensue now is a mix of nicely done battles and sometimes humor as well. Jaeger manages to mix it together despite lacking time and resources to shoot scenes the way they are shot in Asia or USA.I'm giving it a 9 out of 10 for sheer innovation and fun value. I'll buy the DVD as soon as it hits the shelves...

I was channel surfing at home early this morning when I came across this German film in Star Movies (it was dubbed in English). The thing that caught my attention was the fact that it was a martial arts movie which made use of the Filipino martial art arnis, and that the fight scenes were very well choreographed.The movie centered on Jonas Klingenberg (Mathis Landwehr, who's being a hottie did not hurt one bit), an apprentice of a murdered martial arts expert who was keeping in his care a very valuable book which contained (apparently) many secrets to becoming a very powerful martial artist. The movie opened with a scene showing Jonas being shot from behind by a really hot-looking woman, and his master fighting against the villain, Bosco, and the antagonist, eventually, succeeding in stealing the precious book.The setting of the movie was in 2050, showing a particular town (which I assumed was a metaphor for the whole world) to be a vast wasteland, controlled by the "evil" Bosco, who seemed to be concerned only with creating a powerful team of martial artists. Think Matrix meets Bulletproof Monk, meets Robin Hood (Jonas eventually became somewhat a defender of the masses by teaching most of the "homeless people" how to fight using his technique, and stealing from the bad, giving it to the poor...that kind of thing...).I know, I know, this plot has been done, revisited, redone, and visited once again by sooooo many producers, scriptwriters, directors, and what-have-yous in the movie industry, you are starting to ask if it would still be a successful venture.My answer: for this particular movie, yes. I fell in love with this movie. I'm not a big fan of martial arts flicks, but, somehow, this changed my mind. It had a good story line going, although the part where in there was some sort of a rave party going on after their group was successfully able to ambush most of the food ration trucks, was a bit off for me. But they were able to justify why that scene was there, as well as why Jonas had to make love to Maria outside their hide-out, and not in some secluded area in their sewer-hiding place.All in all, this movie was worth it. I found it good enough for me to actually research it over the internet, and write up this comment.