Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Fast and non-stop action thriller that despite being almost unknown to the movie going public puts most of the James Bond, and its many imitators, actions films to shame.David Glover works for his uncle's, Mr. Wagner,] Fed-EX like delivery company in Berlin Germany called the Berlin Express. It's by sheer accident that David gets himself involved with a major assassination attempt on the only witness who could put big time international mob boss Victor Labeque behind bars for the murder of Mr. Sanders and his family his wife and five year old son. It was Sanders, a German industrialist, refusal to go along with Labeque's plan to sell illegal arms to terrorists groups that cost the lives of him and his family.With cross-bow lady assassin Lara commandeering his delivery van David is forced to get involved in her using him as the person to assassinate the only witness who could testify against Labeque in his upcoming murder trail at the Berlin Hall of Justice. To make sure that David doesn't chicken out on the task that she has assigned to him Lara has his girlfriend, and fellow Berlin Express deliver woman, Jenny kidnapped and held hostage to be murdered, by cross-bow, if David doesn't come through! It's when David sees who he's to murder that not only he but Jenny, who's sees the person on a short-circuit TV screen in Lara hideout, realizes just how sick and evil both Lara and her employer Victor Labeque really are!Mile an minute action with amazing heart-stopping chases on land sea and air makes you completely forget just how unbelievable the movie's storyline really is. Yet the action scenes are so amazing and non-stop that for the most part the movie's plot is the last thing that your interested in! Just wanting to do his job as a parcel deliver driver David ends up being mistaken for the assassin who had already murdered two previous witnesses in the Labeque trial as well as some dozen or so policemen who were protecting them.***SPOILER ALERT*** Trying to prove his innocence as well as save Jenny and help catch the real assassin Lara just about took everything out of David in the movie. In the end David by risking his life in being killed by both Lara and the German police and SWAT-like assault team headed by Chief Hillman pulled off the impossible! But only after the city of Berlin suffer it's most destructive damage since the "Battle of Berlin" when the Red Army captured it back in April/May 1945.The most effective, as well as moving, scene in the film had nothing to do with the many action scenes in it. It had to do with the emotionally packed confrontation between David and his Uncle Wagner at the Berlin Express office. Knowing that David was an innocent stooge and without his help he's doomed to either death or a life behind bars, if captured by the police, Mr. Wagner did the right thing at the end of the movie. Mr. Wagner that by giving David both the time as well as cover to save Jenny's life and put Lara's evil plan, to murder the only remaining witness against Labeque, to an end.

jocedeg ..and, well... not much else.This movie takes place in a world where the laws of physics don't exist. The action sequences just don't make any sense. The final bike jump is like something out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon: acme physics at work.I know German cars are well built, but the beating all these Mercedes take in that movie is just hilarious ! And they still roll ! Alison King is cute, but she can't act. But, hey, what can you do with such a stupid script ? If you have 90 minutes to waste, like, really really waste, then this movie will do that for you.But they will be wasted forever: no refund, so think about it !

drystyx This movie doesn't even have enough laughs to be in a worst film festival. The plot, as near as I could make out, was an innocent man wrongly accused of being a super assassin so clever she thinks she can coerce a man into doing something that would require a spoiler to tell you how stupid it would be. The assassin has killed all the witnesses against some important rich guy on trial, except for one. She tries to make this guy kill the last witness for her. There's too much that is worse about this movie to go into the flaws of the plot. First, the movie is car chase after chase. Bond movies got away with car chases because there were plenty of cutaways, and the chases weren't overdrawn. Some movies, like Road Warrior, gave us open top vehicles with wild costumed people inside, and intriguing backgrounds, such as the desert. The reality is car chases are boring, because motor vehicles are boring, except to red necks, dorks, (and yokels who've never seen a car I suppose). And nothing is more boring than watching cars driving (speeding, wrecking, who cares) down boring city streets. Then there are some characters whose English cannot possibly be understood (the blonde girl enunciates so bad, she probably utters two words that a viewer can interpret). Just go ahead and put subtitles on instead of let them speak gibberish! And every stereotype scene you can imagine is in here. The actresses are so bad, they make the lame actors look like de Niros in comparison. It is truly impossible to watch this film without fast forwarding most of it, particularly the dull car chases that seem to take eons. When you see the last witness finally led on screen, and you're hoping that this stereotype isn't there, be prepared; it is, and I dare you not to groan. The film tries to work on a juvenile level, but fails even there. Someone could make a poll, what is worse in this movie, the writing, acting, or directing? I propose that we make captured terrorists watch this film until they crack. I don't care if it's inhumane beyond all reason. It would put this celluloid to good use.

Ian Bourne This acting was very wooden and I have never heard of any of the principals, I am glad that Germans speak English so well now! However, the plot was a bit predictable - the female cop on the run so quickly after some guys get skewered with arrows? Gimme a break! Why did the same woman then seduce the hero? A cop? Just so? She wanted to pin the blame, and any idiot would know David was not the assassin if they would dust the bow for prints and then do a psychological evaluation and try to gauge if he had any combat or acrobatic skills.But then the plot would dry up faster than tumbleweed in Arizona during July...As for Jenny forgiving David in the course of the film, that was a stretch of reality beyond the usual suspension of plausibility. It seems to me the movie was just a vehicle to show how tough and versatile the small Mercedes coupe is and what a life-saver Red Bull after a good fright! They can't even edit the film properly - after one chase scene, you clearly see a stuntman leap out of the top of the burning black Mercedes sedan, get real! http://bajanreporter.blogspot.com/