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What a sorry waste. A bunch of clichés, rich girl back from years in Tokyo, but mind, nothing about her indicates a stay in Japan. Now she is back to Daddy's cutesy castle, but only to start working incognito in Daddy's automobile plant. Here the young hopeful handsome (not really, I could have named a few actors for real eye candy here) genius from research falls in love with her and about two minutes later they become an item. OK, it felt like two minutes. End of possible suspense curve as far as this relationship is concerned. Oh yes, and there is Daddy's new woman whom he springs on his daughter the first evening - but she is such a good woman, even the most prickly potential stepdaughter has to surrender sooner rather than later. Now we need some more plot to fill in the time, we have 90 minutes to kill, after all. Right, there's always the cheating, lying bloke high up on the ladder who is selling out the firm to the evil Americans or Russians or both? But who cares anyway. Young genius and daughter to the rescue, and we are all one big happy family once more. Bottom line: AVOID this one!!!!

"Für kein Geld der Welt" is a German television film from 2011 and the title means "For no amount of money in the world". The German original title may already be bad, but the French title is way worse even. It means "Love me like I am". Sigh. Okay, basics first: This film runs for under 1.5 hours as they always do and the director is Stephan Meyer. He seems retired nos in his 70s and this film from ten years ago was among his final career efforts. definitely not going out on a high note. I mean his body of work since the early 1970s already is not great or anything, but everything he did in the final decade of his career is just horrible and this includes this movie here. The writer is Claudia Matschulla. She started as an actress back in the 1980s, but recently focused more on writing screenplays. She turns/turned 60 this year and looking at her body of work, which is terrible for both writing and acting, it is ridiculous (in the most negative sense possible) that she is still getting picked as a writer. Most recently for the Tatort series, but everybody with a clear mind know anyway that Tatort has always been the pond scum of German film and television. As for the cast, we have some familiar names and faces here. Lead actress Teska I cannot say a lot about. She is attractive that's it. Just like Koeberlin, Meyer and the others, she has been part of many really weak films and with this writer here (Matschulla) in charge of an ARD Degeto production, we kknow what direction we are heading this time. Deep down on the quality scale. Franke and Zirner are too established and experienced to show up in films like this. Clearly they were just cashing in on the GEZ money. Sad. And Saskia Vester of course, a contender for queen of nonsense movies here in my country. When she is part of a project, you almost always be sure that the film is going to suck. No talented bone in her body. Also pretty funny how we are supposed to accept her here as a renowned public prosecutor when everything about her is so simple, not just the looks (no matter what kind of clothes they put her into), but most of all the complete absence of talent.

Let me elaborate further on the story now: The conflict between daughter and love interest for Zirner's character is depicted as cringeworthy as it gets from the very start. Take the chair scene and the running scene. i want to get those out of my head as soon as possible. Oh and our protagonist Isabella (Teska) also loves getting into cars with boys, but not with everybody as we find out. And the car talk with Koeberlin's character shows us they were really having a connection right? Later on, we also get charming statements like "My workshop belongs to me, with everything inside." This also includes the female protagonist and the statement was made when somebody else hit on her. What an alpha male here played by Koeberlin. Shame the actor also has no talent at all. Oh and yes, hydraulics may be a challenge for sure, but not to our heroine whos ees right through it and they fid they car so quickly and of they go our two lovebirds. Of course, the car works really well again and everybody is cheering and applauding. Thing big. Even if you have no filmmaking talent. Speaking of cars, we also find out that Vester's character is a woman who, despite her profession, knows how to drink and party when there is a reference to her blood alcohol level. This quote was linked to an utterly unfunny running gag about the information how lng alcohhol stays in the system. Man, this was cringeworthy to watch. But let's stay chronological: Our saint Isabella also steps up when daddy is about to sell part of the company to some evil investor. And when does she do so? Seconds after finding out she confronts her father. Oh I guess this is how new employees act these days. Ket alone, how they are even informed about something like that which happens five layers above them on the company structre scale. What a dedicated young woman. Beautiful!

If we are talking about the struggles between the two women again from early on, the grave scene is the worst this film has to offer, already with how the dog is near Vester's character's man and son early on (what a coincidence), but also how the two women meet there later on. They meet again as a coincidence, just like with the jogging. And we find out about the sob story. Man, Vester is already horrible with light material, but when she goes all in here emotionally and dramatically, it is literally unwatchable. Or how she talks to Zirner's character: "You loved your wife" "You still have your child". I don't even. The pseudo important music was also not helping at all in these scenarios such as the graveyard scene. The worst music moment was maybe early on when Teska's character is about to tell her dad she goes back to Japan. Oh and The Calling (especially this song) is not quality music by any means. Sometimes equally bad films at least have good songs, but even there this one comes truly short. Why are films like this even made? Why are they shown many years later still? Unbelievable. Outrageous. I guess the answer is that the simple-minded and easily-influenced mistake it for quality and depth. Pathetic. The actress who plays the friend at work and colleague was also unwtachable on many occasions, although her character really did not have a lot of screen time. Take the balcony scene. Take the "prince with the heart of iron" comment. Her line delivery there was a catastrophe. I don't even. The only thing missing to mmake this film even worse would have been her being secretly a couple with the foreign dude. I don't even want to talk about him and his laughable competition prize inclusion. And what was up with this gay artist character? Did he have any purpose at all? Filler material of the worst kind, maybe to show us the protagonist is not a homophobe?

As for the two lovebirds, it all felt fake too, like how they were barely together and then we get some pseudo drama immediately. Felt really pathetic and unrealistic. Or how the protagonist wants to solve some stuff in the company when it comes to how women with children are treated. This is discrimination by the way. Illegal. It needs no solving unless we are in a parallel universe where this film seems to take place. But i wanted to talk about the couple. Her alias was a big thing there as well with how Koeberlin's character finds out. She forgot her cell phone and it was stuck in the sofa. Happened a hundred times to all of us. Okay. Apparently, she also did not realize? Hmm. And this is how it came out because daddy called and he took the call and found out it is the wrong name. Of course Isi is not to blame whatsoever because she wanted to tell her man about it the very same night. Instead, Isi blames daddy. I mean how dare he call her and say his real name and ask who accepted the call. What a vile, vile man the father is really! We must think so because she asks daddy why he does stuff like that and tells him that he destroyed everything and she is a female, so she is always in the right, no? Let's forget for a second she lied for weeks. The cringe continues with pseudo romantic quotes like "I don't want to live in another world without you". He drives off with loud music and the pseudo drama continues. Will they ever see each other again? Sure thing. One scene and second later they are together, daddy, Isi and lover, and discuss technical aspects while revealing a crime of manipulation. And Koeberlin's character accepts her joyful kiss. Sure thing. As if nothing happened before that. Anti-male as always. He must be happy to have her, no matter what she does (to him). Dramatic music kicks in again.

As for this manipulation idea, they messed up once again. Big surprise, I know. Passwords are cracked within five seconds haha I don't even and Meyer's character is an evil hypocrite all of a sudden. Public prosecutor Vester is also on the phone there. Maybe she could have told them about the concept of an unlwlful search (who's the criminal now?), but this would have been too challenging for the target audience of this movie. Teska has her worst acting moment of the entire film with the "große Glocke" quote. Nobody's watching this in English anyway. Maybe she is really all about the looks only. She was younger than I thought in this movie. Oh yeah, and when you once again thought this film could not get any worse we have this "funny" talk sequence in the car with the driver. Absolutely. Again, unwatchable, especially with the playful music there. They made sure that nobody forgets they also messed up the comedy here, not just the drama. No talent all along. Koeberlin's character is of course too late for the crucial final meeting in which the bad guy is exposed. Nobody cares though, maybe he spent the night with the boys again? He is important enough luckily. He also gets the keye when the bad guy is about to be thrown out. Terrible scene and acting there from Meyer and especially Zirner. And daughter Isi gets to join the board of directors as she desired from the start. Happy endings all along. Just saying. As for the real ending, it is embarrassing to see how the alarm is used for a personal "important" statement. And Zirner hits rock bottom again with his speech on how he failed back then as a simple undercover worker decades ago. Of course, everybody is around for that highlight. Yep, Vester's character too. So random. How come? I guess the important lawyer is not really needed at the office right now. She delegates, no? But order must be restored and everybody back to work. The one who said so looked like an old Elisabeth Moss. And before the closing credits roll in, we also get an explanation why the film is called like this (cringe is real) and the passionately-awaited liplock. Enough now. Absolutely do not watch this film! Major thumbs-down.