Not much to add to the title - that's just the way it is. The enactment/staging of the movie is - in my opinion - kinda great, good actors, nice lighting, o.k. camera handling. But now the missing 6 stars - this is partly based on my taste and partly the director's fault.
First of all, I'm not a fan of horror, "torture-porn", gore and such at all, I watched this movie rather "accidentally". Well, there are great horror movies, this one is set in my home town and I'm interested in that exploring stuff, so I gave it a try. Unfortunately, this movie degrades itself to a C-title due to the use of these worn-out, standardized, boring, predictable default clichés like: Why do these people act so stupid? Why don't they kill him securely as they have the chance? Why are they so incredibly unskillful and overwhelmed in every situation? -.- It's a pain in the *** watching this over and over again. Can't directors come up with good horror ideas that are NOT based on these defaults?
The second major problem is the actual lack of a story. There are basic approaches, but nothing really fits. This might be typical for the genre - well, this is mainly the reason I don't like these movies. But if there is a psychotic killer, a good movie can skillfully show why and with what reason he does this stuff. This is hardly explained here, maybe some traumatizing-history-psycho-stuff, but nothing justifying such a behavior. The end scenes let the viewer wait for some kind of twist, but nothing happens. The psycho is the almighty bad boy and prepared for everything, so not even 5 or more people stand a chance against him. Of course. And let me tell you: Berlin underground stations are not THAT empty at night, for sure not.
The logical consequence - if the exploration leader survives, which is not exactly shown - would be a special forces operation into the villain's underground base (I'd like to see that as an epilogue ^^). But this is left open like every bit of... reason in this movie. Kinda sad because the acting, lighting and stuff, like mentioned, is really well done.
Let me add that the lack of subtitles in the version I watched was more positive than negative for me as I speak English and German fluently. This gives the movie a nice realistic touch.
First of all, I'm not a fan of horror, "torture-porn", gore and such at all, I watched this movie rather "accidentally". Well, there are great horror movies, this one is set in my home town and I'm interested in that exploring stuff, so I gave it a try. Unfortunately, this movie degrades itself to a C-title due to the use of these worn-out, standardized, boring, predictable default clichés like: Why do these people act so stupid? Why don't they kill him securely as they have the chance? Why are they so incredibly unskillful and overwhelmed in every situation? -.- It's a pain in the *** watching this over and over again. Can't directors come up with good horror ideas that are NOT based on these defaults?
The second major problem is the actual lack of a story. There are basic approaches, but nothing really fits. This might be typical for the genre - well, this is mainly the reason I don't like these movies. But if there is a psychotic killer, a good movie can skillfully show why and with what reason he does this stuff. This is hardly explained here, maybe some traumatizing-history-psycho-stuff, but nothing justifying such a behavior. The end scenes let the viewer wait for some kind of twist, but nothing happens. The psycho is the almighty bad boy and prepared for everything, so not even 5 or more people stand a chance against him. Of course. And let me tell you: Berlin underground stations are not THAT empty at night, for sure not.
The logical consequence - if the exploration leader survives, which is not exactly shown - would be a special forces operation into the villain's underground base (I'd like to see that as an epilogue ^^). But this is left open like every bit of... reason in this movie. Kinda sad because the acting, lighting and stuff, like mentioned, is really well done.
Let me add that the lack of subtitles in the version I watched was more positive than negative for me as I speak English and German fluently. This gives the movie a nice realistic touch.