Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 marks to save her boyfriend's life.

Hm. The word that most readily comes to mind about this movie is 'interesting', and as Mr. Otter claims that Americans only use that word pejoratively, I won't say it.

Mr. Otter's other observation on this movie was that it was like a video game; you keep doing it over til you figure out how to win. Very apt analogy, that.

On the one hand, I liked the concept: things go disastrously wrong, and she goes back to change events. I also liked the way that you saw a brief flash of the future for everyone she ran into, and when she changed her past, their futures changed as well.

The problem is, it was really hard to care about Lola, Manni, her dad or anyone else in the movie...he's a whiny idiot, she's got very little to her besides her overpowering need to get the money to save him, didn't like either of them. It might have been seeing it with subtitles, might have been the fact that the movie was too short for serious character development, or it might have been that I just really don't care about a couple of punks who get in trouble because they're STU-PID...

The camera work is interesting, in a non-pejorative sense, and is kinda fun to watch for that reason alone, although it gets a little monotonous...but that does help when you are trying to see the differences in the sequence each time through.

I'd say this is mostly for film students or those who are looking for something a little outre.