Simply Perfect

People are voting emotionally.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

***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.

Good action, Plot So so. Dumb Cops. The movie is not as bad as some of posters suggest. Physics? In an action movie? Ha LOL Please. Have you seen XXX ? or a bond film? The action is good the plot is a little heavy handed ,but I think that is just to keep the pace moving along. Personally I wish they had some nudity but there you go. The Cops are as dim as can be. Man if I decide to commit a crime I am going to Germany! (If the cops are like that) I love the Beating that the Cars took in the movie. So much metal scrunched yea. I love seeing helicopters on the go. They didn't use them to the best but they were there. I would say this one is worth watching. If for the car crashes if nothing else.

I was captivated by this movie from the first scene to the last. The pace was so fast that I did not dare look away from the screen in case I miss the next turn of events. I also liked the storyline: a nice, harmless young man suddenly finds himself in the middle of a full scale war between a professional killer, who is a very clever, ruthless and beautiful lady, and the police. Of course the plot is not very realistic, which action movie is? Everything is exaggerated to make it more exciting. But compared to many other action movies, the plot is cleverly constructed and makes sense. There are even some humorous elements - like the way this young man tries to hold on to good manners in the midst of chaos, or the scene where a police commando storms the workshop of the young man's uncle who thinks this is about unpaid parking tickets. I have no explanation for the sharply negative comments on this page. It could be that the English version, which I have not seen yet, is much worse than the German version, but I doubt it. I also don't understand the complaint about German police not speaking in their native language. But this may be due to the fact that in Germany all foreign movies are dubbed and therefore I am used to it.

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/