Run Lola Run, Brief Comments

Finished Run Lola Run, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/run_lola_run/, Lola Rennt (literally Lola runs).

I guess this is one of those films I had to see in the theatre to really appreciate rather than my usual 20-30 minutes at a time on the elliptical walker down in the basement.

Got high marks on Rotten Tomatoes, I remember the noise when it first came out. I had some difficulty getting involved with a young woman who dates a guy who considers doing drug deals a step up, has to beg money from her banker-father who is having an affair and has evidently gotten a member of the Board of Directors pregnant, and who has what seems to be Raggedy Ann orange-red hair. Well, I did like the hair.

I guess it was considered clever integrating a bit of animation into the middle of the film and having repetitions of the plot with different endings, each cycle punctuated with the young woman shouting loud and high enough to break glass. There was even a tiny bit of Donny Darko, with at least the young woman seemingly remembering what happened from the previous repetitions.

I found it uninvolving and thought the boyfriend should have ended up in jail. If one of my daughters showed up with that twit, it would make me very unhappy.