From the moment a movie starts with "based on a true story" you know what to expect...drama, and if there is any motherheart around you better have a handkerchief near you. This is the story for the dumb couples I suppose...men have their action-scenes (the hostagekeeper is a real psycho, even if he can't act) and women can start crying as some kids are threatened to be shot down while Patsy Kensit (always nice to see) is the mother with a heart... What's the story you say? Well, a psycho hostages a classroom with rich kids at where Patsy Kensit is the teacher who tries to calm down the psycho. And with that you can save 2 hours of your life cos there is nothing to be added. So yes this movie is terrible, such a story has been told 10000 times before!!!
5 Reviews
Simple plot with some unnecessary animal violence
skaternl29 June 1999
Okay movie. Could be done better. Plus sometimes it seems like Gerardt Dach has 2 or 3 different voices. Marcia is the only one who plays an okay role. The rest comes over like some cheap actors.
story: Marcia comes back to her family in Germany after losing her husband in the USA. She starts teaching at an international school with kids from rich people. While teaching her class becomes hostages from a guy who has no real motive for kidnapping them and only wants 25 million dollars. Interesting ending though.
story: Marcia comes back to her family in Germany after losing her husband in the USA. She starts teaching at an international school with kids from rich people. While teaching her class becomes hostages from a guy who has no real motive for kidnapping them and only wants 25 million dollars. Interesting ending though.
This film failed to grip as much as it should have done
maralex10 April 2001
Since this movie was based on true events, and centred around a group of small children and their young teacher - Patsy Kensit - being held hostage by a crazed fanatic it should have had me on the edge of my seat, but it didn't. The main problem was that the crazed fanatic was a really bad actor, and I didn't believe in him for one moment. Most of the children were more frightening than him, mainly because their acting was dire. Surely they could have cried a bit more convincingly. They should have been made to watch the rushes, that might have helped. On the other hand, Prochnow was tailor-made for his role as a policeman still haunted by the memory of the murder of the athletes at the Munich Olympics and determined not to let the same thing happen again, and it was interesting to learn how tight-fisted and devious governments are willing to be even when children's lives are at stake. If the ending is true then it's amazing, but I suspect a little dramatic licence may have been taken here. An okay watch in the end, but it should have been better.
A decent movie.
Hetty7 August 1999
This gets off to a bad start with no character development, but once it gets going it's quite interesting despite poor acting from most of the players. A couple of the actors are quite good, though, and Prochnow is terrific in this role.
Hauntingly unimportant
Island_of_Boold8 January 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Human Bomb impressively manages to avoid greater relevance and reason at nearly every turn. We spend the first ~15 minutes of the film with our lead character (the woman from Lethal Weapon) purchasing tickets to Germany, meeting her parents in Germany, trying to get, and then immediately getting a teaching job in Germany - none of this matters anyway because on a completely unrelated note a terrorist demanding a huge amount of money because he is upset with humans for destroying the world takes her class hostage. This may as well have happened on her first day or eighth year of teaching, as with everything else that happens in this movie: it doesn't matter one bit. When the terrorist takes over the class he lets the male teacher leave, again he just as easily could have let the woman from Lethal Weapon go, wouldn't have made a bit of difference except instead of having a scene where they bring her baby to her to breastfeed it while the children in the class are all snoozing on sedatives, there would have been no scene. Or maybe they could have ordered a pizza. Who cares? The breastfeeding baby netted no one any strategic gain. There is no character development on anyone's part and the next day they successfully tackle the bad guy, then the police chief comes over for dinner and the credits roll. Okay. Human Bomb has the cultural gravity of ordering and then changing your mind and having potato salad instead of french fries except there's nothing to eat.
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