Tom Schilling gives a solid performance here, starring as Niko Fischer, a young man, living in Berlin, who's lost his way in life and is currently broke, unemployed, has no serious relationships, and is still taking tuition money from his father without telling him he dropped out of law school some 2 years before.
The satirical film will capture one day in Niko's life, as he encounters all kinds of bizarre situations, I imagine trying to be in the vein of Scorsese's "After Hours". He'll also meet all kinds of mostly mean-spirited and malevolent people, but one thing he'll have a heck of a time finding is a cup of coffee.
Although I was intrigued enough to want to know how it would all turn out, the biggest problem for me was that I felt the filmmaker Jan Ole Gerster (making his feature film debut) went over-the-top with the mean-spiritedness and thus I couldn't find much entertainment here. I imagine we all meet these obnoxious jerks at times in our lives, so I would have much preferred more of a mixture of oddness and quirkiness rather than constant malevolence, but that's me.
The satirical film will capture one day in Niko's life, as he encounters all kinds of bizarre situations, I imagine trying to be in the vein of Scorsese's "After Hours". He'll also meet all kinds of mostly mean-spirited and malevolent people, but one thing he'll have a heck of a time finding is a cup of coffee.
Although I was intrigued enough to want to know how it would all turn out, the biggest problem for me was that I felt the filmmaker Jan Ole Gerster (making his feature film debut) went over-the-top with the mean-spiritedness and thus I couldn't find much entertainment here. I imagine we all meet these obnoxious jerks at times in our lives, so I would have much preferred more of a mixture of oddness and quirkiness rather than constant malevolence, but that's me.