Reviews

A few days ago I watched the first part of this misadventure and was more or less ready to write down the review for both parts, but for the sake of truth decided to actually watch the second one. It didn't help this review a bit. Even in the first episode the main characters are abysmally flat and unbelievable. Events happen just so they can connect the crappy story in a way, but this hardly helps for the reality factor - You see knights riding horses on the marble floors being trashed by a 45kg blonde right after they've dealt with the helpless NYPD and robbed Vatican-guarded treasures – that, up to the 15th minute and you know dearly that you are watching mindless chick-flick soaped up with 'Templers, crazy Vatican priests/assassins and the saving of Christianity as a religion' just for the sake of it. But the pace of pure stupidity in the script is mind-blowing. You try to watch, yet another fifteen minutes and you need the break again, because you can't take it anymore. She was finding volcanoes and deserts in the Balkans, sailing into 10-meters waves in the Mediterranean and making love with the lot in between. It is hopelessly unbelievable. On top of that she always managed to get her brassiere fixed and fresh-looking. The development of the relationships between the main characters deserves the opposite of an Oscar and the guy responsible should be sent on a permanent vacation in Alaska. And it keeps spinning on, like a rotary engine fed with b0110cks, feeding the flames with a coal-like screenplay and absurd scenes. Don't waste your time on this one. It was a mistake. Just a mistake and nothing more for now, but if you waste your time watching this mistake you might be part of the reason why other mistakes like that will be made. And that is scary. Actors like Mira or next-guy-on-screen should concentrate over learning to act first and then taking on projects like this one. And about the writers – they should learn that a movie is based on a book not because they said so or there are some similarities - like Christianity and Turkey.... Here there are none, but yet they say it is made by the book, question being – WHICH ONE? ... Add again the WORST acting ever courtesy of Mira Sorvino (it never gets too much saying that) and = 1/10 – AWFUL, Worst movie of the YEAR surpassing the masterpiece 'SHARK IN VENICE' by a mile, if that's possible?

This movie is the pinnacle of Bosnian and redneck drivers kicking Russian asses in the German underground. The plot consists of a family garage, love and life at stake and a gangster thrown in for not much reason. Then there is good vs. evil vs. not –so-sure, which, by far, is the best part. While the movie tries to deliver the feeling of a German underground racing mixed with family and emotional values it fails at the very heart of it - the racing part. The racing drivers are cruising with an A4 and a police BMW 5th series (not to be confused with M5) doing their usual police/theft chases and through the night they are racing Fords, Nissans and… not much more! Add the famous Z4 Coupe just to make sure you get how much of 'real' racers they are.

The 'gangster' has a Bentley and a few Ferraris in the garage, but of course they are not so fast. Let's just not mention how famous Europeans are for their love of Japanese and especially American cars as it is well described in Top Gear, Fifth Gear, every car magazine ant the sales charts... Then there is the fact that within 250 km. range from the filming location there are about 20 faster serial models being produced...well let's forget about that. I blame the low budget for not letting one of those cars get involved, but that is part of the 'magical' experience in my view. On the positive note there are some kick-ass driving in the movie. Acting is not that cheesy, although you could hardly like most of the characters, they are good enough to provoke some emotional attachments. I give it 4 out of 10 because it is a good try for the German cinema. Although, I have no idea what Germany had to do with it. The classy act from the main two racers makes up for the step from 3 to 4. A mediocre time waster if you got a lot of it.