User Reviews

Germany from above is really beautiful. But why did they show only a few parts? Why he had to fly 20 Minutes through the alps and 20 minutes at the coast and forget about nearly all the rest? These parts who weren't shown are much, much bigger than these you can see in the movie. Most of the important cities aren't shown a second, most of the rivers neither. Two minutes about the Rhine, none about Mosel. Only one small part of industries and not even a relevant part could be seen in this movie. Nearly nothing about Bayerischer Wald, Hunsrück, Westerwald, Eifel, Taunus, Harz, Teutoburger Wald or Schwarzwald.

If you want to see something which is representative for Germany, don't watch this movie. These guys couldn't decide to make a nature movie about birds and other animals or a movie about Germany from above. They show a glider pilot doing tricks for nearly five minutes, why? They show some very old military planes, why? Five Minutes of the Oktoberfest in Munich? Five minutes of a Capricorn in the alps?

But the most awful things were theses dumb comments, who nobody wants to hear. Like that's getting warm in summer and the people go out again. Really embarrassing.

That's it, basically. The pictures are nice, although their structure is a bit baffling. I have however, seldom hated a movie's score as I did this one, mostly because of course the music plays a major part here. This is a score for people who think that Hans Zimmer is altogether too subtle and subdued. If you like the emotional point of images being driven home with a sledgehammer, this is definitely the score for you. I was this close to getting out my mp3-player's headphones to muffle the sound. The movie has roughly three themes (with roughly three chords each), and the most annoying part is that you won't be able to get them out of your head once you have escaped the cinema. Again, the images are nice (although I don't know why Berlin gets about 90 seconds and the Alps about 10 minutes of screen time), but the music is dreadful, uninspired, annoying, just terrible.