this is what the outcome should look like. Jan Fedder and Axel Milberg are big players in the German television industry with their crime series "Großstadtrevier" and "Tatort" and here they unite for a more comedic approach, but also stay with their crime-solving roots. It is a five-year-old movie for television that runs roughly 90 minutes and has the usual components: a love interest for the two male protagonists, a very unlikeable murderer, a loyal friend to the two and an incompetent police officer. Actually it would have been a creative take if Petri's ("Lola rennt") character would just have appeared once and disappeared right again after the golden boots argument, especially as everybody would have thought she will be a factor for the rest of the film. And that she was. No surprise here.
The way the murder victim was telling her killer that she talked to nobody was somehow funny too in a strange manner, because she made herself so volatile with everything she said to him that you would know something is about to happen to her. The comedy in this movie is fairly subtle, but it is there from start to finish, especially in the interactions between the two male characters. Milberg also gets a couple laughs in his interrogation at the police station or when he keeps talking about Paris, but is somewhere totally else. The cast does a good job and Stromberg fans will find a familiar face as well. The film's director and writer are pretty experienced with television filmmaking, so this is maybe why it turned out nicely. There are so many horribly-written German television movies out there, but this is not one of them. Maybe my favorite quote was: "I drank a coffee with her the other day." "Why?" "Because I am a heterosexual." They even made a second movie two years later and who knows, maybe there will be even more. Both lead actors are around 60 right now, so they still have at least 15 more years in the industry. I don't watch the television shows of the two, so I was not too familiar with them, but I was pleasantly surprised all in all, even if the musical solution of the case in the end was a bit over the top, but you got quickly used to it. Nice Monkey Island ring-tone too near the end. Recommended.
The way the murder victim was telling her killer that she talked to nobody was somehow funny too in a strange manner, because she made herself so volatile with everything she said to him that you would know something is about to happen to her. The comedy in this movie is fairly subtle, but it is there from start to finish, especially in the interactions between the two male characters. Milberg also gets a couple laughs in his interrogation at the police station or when he keeps talking about Paris, but is somewhere totally else. The cast does a good job and Stromberg fans will find a familiar face as well. The film's director and writer are pretty experienced with television filmmaking, so this is maybe why it turned out nicely. There are so many horribly-written German television movies out there, but this is not one of them. Maybe my favorite quote was: "I drank a coffee with her the other day." "Why?" "Because I am a heterosexual." They even made a second movie two years later and who knows, maybe there will be even more. Both lead actors are around 60 right now, so they still have at least 15 more years in the industry. I don't watch the television shows of the two, so I was not too familiar with them, but I was pleasantly surprised all in all, even if the musical solution of the case in the end was a bit over the top, but you got quickly used to it. Nice Monkey Island ring-tone too near the end. Recommended.
