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Hotel
Hotel (2004)
I want my money back!
4 April 2005
The story has potential. The director has not. The movie is praised as a horror movie, but it isn't. I'd like to say something about the story... but I'm sorry, there is no story. There is no suspense. There is one very well actress, but it's not the leading role. It's Frau Maschek alias Marlene Streeruwitz who did a very impressive acting.

During this very bland 80 minutes I've always been thinking: "When does the story begin?". When the movie came to its end, I was thinking: "That's not it! I've paid for a movie, show me one!". This is definitely the worst film ever made in Austria. It's a shame that movies like this are traded the figureheads of Austrian films. Don't waste your money, don't waste your time! Not even for the DVD.
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Bergkristall
Bergkristall (2004)
1/10
absolute boring adaptation of a X-Mas novel
27 November 2004
Warning: Spoilers
The movie is an adaptation of an Adalbert Stifter novel, written in the year 1845. And that says everything about the story. It's just old.

There are two villages in the Alps, one rich and one poor. Some shoemaker falls in love with a girl, who is living in the rich village. They marry, are living in the poor village, everyone hates them. They get 2 children and their marriage seems to brake up. So the wife is going back to the rich village, the kids stay with the father, but are visiting every day their mother - which is a march about 3 hours. The kids hear the story about a rock crystal that can reunite two lovers. At Christmas Eve the kids are marching from one village to another - again, but there is a blizzard. They get lost. And they search the crystal. You may envision the rest...

It's a total family film. Not only that the director is the husband of the main actress and the father of the little girl, but also because it's just a boring Christmas movie for the little ones.

Frequent continuity errors (Good weather and blue sky - cut - 1 sec later - dark clouds and snowfall; or the one I loved the most: autumn -the kids are at a stone, the trees are bald, not one leaf - cut - kids are still at the rock, all the trees got buds....yes, it's spring!), extremely bad actors, different dialects (german dialects! - Stifter was Austrian and the story takes place in Austria - but this only bothers an Austrian guy) and an absolute boring and predictable story make this movie to the X-Mas-flop of the year.

Save the money! Save your time! You won't miss anything.
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The Edukators
The Edukators (2004)
Great and inspiring German movie
27 November 2004
Germans are not known for good movies. This is an exception. maybe, because the director is Austrian. The story is sometimes very far-fetched and predictable, but always challenging. Three leftist students get fu**** by society and start an "educational program". They call themselves "The Educators", brake in some rich peoples houses and "rape" their furniture. One day they are caught off guard by the owner, an old manager. They kidnap him and bring him to a hut in the Alps. But this guy is an old 1968 lefty who got family and responsibility now, and this old lefty is really fooling his kidnappers and showing them how left-power really works.

The story is well told, the characters are very well drawn and the actors deliver some real great show. The Camera sometimes reminds of blair witch project, but that's okay.

Go and see the movie, you will be enjoying it. When you come out of the theatre, you want to start a revolution against society...but you will calm down very fast.
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