"Abgefahren" (I will spare you the several German alternate titles) is a German 85-minute film from 2004, so this one will have its 15th anniversary next year. The director is Jakob Schäuffelen and for this Bavarian filmmaker it is among his most known works for sure and same can probably be said about the three writers who worked on the script for this one. Yes indeed it took no less than three writers to come up with this horrible script here. But first things first: The central character is played by Felicitas Woll and I am always a bit undecided about her and how talented she is. She has some decent films in her body of work, but for every solid work, there is also at least one pretty bad film in there too if not more. The rest of the cast are not particularly known and even the biggest German film buffs will have a hard time recognizing their faces. If you understand the play on words in the German title, then you will realize that this is another German film with major focus on cars and car racing a long long time after stuff like Manta Manta for example. But maybe they should not have tried to revive this genre as it turned out really a gigantic mess here. The only real conflict in here is what should be considered worst: the lame car racing sequences, the horrible romance plot, the conflicts between the bitchy girls, the irritating and constantly changing behavior by the protagonist in terms of who she wants to hang out with or the fact that this film actually dares to take itself seriously for the most part. Impossible to make a definite statement. I guess it all comes down to your personal preference and subjective taste in order to determine what you despise the most. Oh yeah nice try too with the admittedly pretty hot lesbian kissing scene between Woll's character and Tenge's character, but sadly this reference really makes obvious that they really weren't scared to include anything in order to make money by getting people to theaters and if the writers don't have the talent for depth and authentic character development than at least get them horny and lets include pointless sex references on several occasions. This is a horrible film with low production values in all key areas. I highly recommend to skip this one.
Review of Abgefahren
