Número desconocido

Germany production with tension, intrigue, non-stop action, twists and turns. Deals with a bank executive, who faces a risked situation when he receives a mobile phone call informing him he has just a few hours to get a large amount of money or a bomb under his seat will explode , but events are about to be worst . A loving father (Wotan Wilke Möhring) and husband is exorted by an unknown guy and he is about to lose his life, his money and his family. This Summer, all roads lead to the truth !.

Passable thriller with plenty of twists, turns and a suspenseful finale. It contains unstopped action with adequate cast and nice supporting actors giving functional performances. Wotan Wilke stars in this high-voltage thriller called 'Don't Get out ! About a matter of life and death, containing action, revenge and redemption, in which our starring receives a bomb threat while driving his children to school that his car will explode if they stop and get out. In a race against time, he will have to do the impossible to save his family. Complicating things still further , the police pursues him and surrounding his car and then events get awry.

This is a top-notch thriller about a high-powered banker submitted to weird circumstances surrounding him, that's just the starting point for him, and a bit later on , things get even wrong. A film in similar quality other Hollywood blockbusters but in German style. As this picture results to be a crossover from other benchmarking successes as well as grossing American films , such as : ¨Locke¨ by Steven Knight (2013) with Tom Hardy , "Speed" (1994) directed by Jan de Bont with Keanu Reeves , and "Phone Booth" (2002) by Joel Schumacher with Colin Farrell. This thrilling movie has a lot of action images , including pursuits , car crashes , explosion , and anything else . The plot can not be very realistic ; however, displaying several scenes have you on the edge of your seat . The picture increases the relentless tension as well as the flick progresses on screen . Thrilling and nail-biting film with a lot of scenes of drama, tension , emotion and action , all of them at equal parts . This is including an unexpected denouement in its final part . The picture is decent enough , though uneven, as developing mostly into the car, it has a lot of turns; but not very original, it is a simple and inferior remake. However , being very entertaining for its continuous suspense . The entertaining premise is overspread across the movie adding some brief conventional pitfalls .

In this remake of the Spanish film " El Desconocido (The Unknown)", Wotan Wilke plays decently a banker living in Berlin who receives a phone call while taking his children to school, as a mysterious voice tells him that the car is loaded with explosives that will detonate unless he does what it says.

Germany's ¨Steig. Nicht. Aus!¨ (Don't. Get. Out!) (2018) by Christian Alvart with Wotan Wilke Möhring is the second remake of Spain's ¨El desconocido¨ (2015) by Dani de la Torre with Luis Tosar; and after: South Korea's ¨Balsinjehan¨ (2021) and going on: ¨Retribution¨ (2023), starring Liam Neeson, Matthew Modine, this is a Germany/Spain/France/United States co-production financed by Jaume Collet-Serra, Mercedes Gamero, being directed by Nimród Antal.

This increasingly potent thriller being compellingly directed with startling visual content by Christian Alvart (Case 39, Pandorum , Antibodies , Curiosity: the cat) . In 1998, he wrote, produced and directed his first 35mm feature film: Curiosity & The Cat, - a low budget thriller-. Many of his friends from the Frankfurt days were part of the project. The film was nominated for the Max-Ophüls-Award and the Prize of the Minister President of the State Saarland. Alvart then worked as a writer for several German features and TV shows. In 2005, he debuted Antibodies, his second work as a director. When it premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival he was named as one of "Five Directors To Watch" as well as the "German New Face of Cinema" at The AFI Festival. Antibodies was also invited to the Edinburgh Film Festival as well as many others, winning numerous awards. Rating Steig Nicht Aus !: 6/10.

What about these bad reviews? I started breathing again when the movie was over. This was intense. Great acting of the father and daughter. I felt like I was in it, yelling at the police with their stupid decisions. I really liked it.

Emily Kusche Stands out. Impeccable.

Möhring is solid, sometimes great, sometimes not so much. Probably not his fault but some of the director's choices.

The sound design is not always flawless. Stemming from its direct to TV -production.

Some minor characters are mediocre at best. Especially the police chief (not Herzsprung). Overacted, dumb and kills the illusion.

Some pacing issues in the second half.

A very odd music choice for the credits.

Some even to the most oblivious viewers very concerning and obvious mistakes by the police. (Did they not have a strategic consultant?) As well as more rather bad acting.

But overall solid. Gripping. Heartfelt. And a triumph for Kusche.

7/10.

I began to watch this on IRIS randomly, not even knowing what genre it belonged. The opening suggested it could even be some romantic comedy. But as scenes progressed, I said ok, that's a variation of Speed and The Phone Booth alright.

The film progressed in a watchable manner, lacking in humor maybe deliberately, but quite good with details and twists, unexpected moments etc.

Safe to say this has all the works a Hollywood movie comes naturally with. The overall IMDb score looks fair in that sense.

However, I must add that, close to the ending there is one twist that takes place that really was clever and moving. The daughter's love and attachment to the father is key on that one, and I'd say it is could have elevated the script one grade if only the finale didn't lag so terribly.

Just please dont watch this movie if you someone who prefer movies which actually make sense. This movie could have been good if the plot was thoroughly planned. 1) It can be logical if the wife suspicious when her husband instruct her to empty their account and leave the money elsewhere. But when the polices believe that the husband, Karl was keeping their children as hostage in the car with bomb & ask her to talk to him, she make it sounds as if he could be that heartless to kill their kids. She could have say, despite their wreck marriage he wont do that. 2) The police actually let someone claiming to be "Karl's brother" (w/o confirming his identification or cross refer to Karl's wife about the stranger's identity), approach rhe car they were stuck in. It was only later that the bomb squad leader decided to cross check with Karl's wife. The police had also simply believe a false info given by lover of Karl's wife who claimed to be her lawyer. Again only later on they recheck the info given by asking Karl's wife. 3) when the chief of bomb squad called the wife to cross check regarding the "profile" they've accumulated about Karl, then only she told the chief that there's no way Karl would do it + he loves their children, that they have no financial prob & Karl was not an addict to gambling (false info). 4) they actually let the guy claiming to be "Karl's brother" away. Which lead to him able to get to Karl a step ahead from the police near the end. 5) both the police leading the operation & the chief of bomb squad did not share info regarding the situation leading to many misunderstanding. They could have realised earlier that karl was not holding their children as hostage but instead they all are hostages. 6) shouldnt the police & the chief of bomb squad learn body languange to read the criminal movement/ tendencies? If not shouldnt they one pyschologist available at site to observe their behaviours to predict his move. Its obvious Karl was in distressed & showing multiple symptoms of a victim needing help. 7) the most unreasonable one would be,how can his kid got shot. In the legs. When the bullet came from the front. It is only logical if it hits the father or the kid (Marius) upper abdomen. 8) They have confiscated his car key, & still felt like Karl is a bad guy when it is so obvious he only manage to start his car & escape after they send in the real bad guy claiming to be "Karl's brother". 9) They aware that the mic they put on "Karl's brother was cut off which should have raised the alarm since it happen before "Karl's brother" manage to reach the car, in other words, he purposely get rid of the mic so that they cant hear his convo with Karl. That being said, they should have at least felt suspicious & put him under surveillance afterwards. So yeah, this movie is poorly plan, too many plot holes & things that dont make sense.