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Biohackers (2020)
predictable, clichéd, boring, embarrassing
"Biohackers" is about genetic experiments of a semi-secret research group in Freiburg, Germany. The basic idea has enormous potential as already movies like Gattaca, The Island, Avatar, etc. showed.
Unfortunately, the series uses the potential only very superficially and uses it instead to occupy a basic theme for a lame, little believable sermon on morality. The show seems like a much too long episode of the German long-running "Tatort".
The characters have no depth. They are stereotypical clichés of their roles, which were used so many times before. They are bloodless and you can't identify with anyone. Additionally, a Deus Ex Machina has to intervene to save their stupid behavior many times.
The most annoying tropes of German TV shows are used, which causes the show to slip into deep cringe sometimes.
All the freshness that the series still had in the first episode, and even then it was only sporadically to be found, has vanished at the latest by half of the season and it becomes the degenerated good vs. evil that you could already guess after a few minutes of the first episode. There are no surprises, no twists. Everything happens exactly as you expect it to, only more boring.
Only in the last minute of the last episode a cliffhanger is added, which should probably make you want to watch a possible second season.
I gladly decline.
At least the cameramen managed to capture Freiburg and its surroundings in beautiful pictures. Unfortunately, this is also the only advantage of the series.
Betonrausch (2020)
Painful visit to the banker
The film is typically German and that in the most negative sense imaginable. The dialogues seem to be copy-pasted from the most uncreative, blandest German evening series. The story itself seems interesting, but is completely overshadowed by the bad script, where nothing fits together. The camera work falls far short of its possibilities and seems outdated, even though the film is supposed to be from 2020. Especially the contourless leading actor, who seems more like the quiet banker from the town bank counter shortly after his apprenticeship, is supposed to play a cunning, charismatic financial swindler. It seems as if Woody Allen should embody the Terminator. The rest of the characters are just as much based on German TV stereotypes that it hurts. Even the fact that of all people the only two justice officials who get beyond a mere extra role have a clear migration background feels like well-intentioned, badly implemented and therefore grandiosely failed, which can also be used as an overall verdict on the movie.
If you are thinking about watching this film: Don't do it. Watch Wolf of Wall Street for the 20th time. The quality of this film has nothing to do with recent German successes such as Dark or Babylon Berlin; A very bad relapse into the dark television times of 10 years ago.